TRIBUTE ABDUL - Perdana Library

V. N. NA1R
me work and undertake the heavy responsibility of Prime Minister.
I am a Muslim. My Faith is God."
On other occasions, the Tunku's talks with newsmen was
largely about Malaysia, the tremendous tasks that await the new
Federation. Every time he spoke proudly about Malaya and
Malayans.
"Our people live happily. My country is one of the richest
in the world. Our people are better fed, better clothed than most
others in our part of the world...."
His statements on Communist machinations, based on practical
experience, were treated with great respect. They opened the
eyes of many people to the seriousness of the threat they were confronted
with.
Before he left India, the Tunku said: "I am taking back with
me shiploads of goodwill and love from India."
But the goodwill and love he left behind for the Indian people
are of inexhaustible proportions.
Here was a genuine friend of India who could rightly claim
hat his goodwill visit was a case of "I came, T saw, I conquered."
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