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3 Thursday 21st May, 1964 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES DEWAN RA'AYAT (HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES) OFFICIAL REPORT CONTENTS MOTION: The Yang di-Pertuan Agong's Speech (Address of Thanks) ICol.

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N ., PENCHETAK KERAJAAN KUALA LUMPUR 1965 Harga: $1 MALAYSIA DEWAN R A A Y AT (HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES) Official Report First Session of the Second Dewan Ra'ayat Thursday, 21st May, 1964 The House met at Ten o'clock a.m.

PRESENT: The Honourable Mr Speaker, TUAN SYED ESA BIN ALWEE, J.M.N., S.M.J., P.I.S.

(Batu Pahat Dalam).

the Prime Minister, Minister of External Affairs and Minister of Youth, Culture and Sports, Y.T.M.

TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN PUTRA AL-HAJ, K.O.M.

(Kuala Kedah).
(Kuala Kedah).

the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defence, Minister of National and Rural Development and Minister of Lands and Mines, TUN HAJI ABDUL RAZAK BIN DATO' HUSSAIN, S.M.N.

(Pekan).

the Minister of Works, Posts and Telecommunications, DATO' V. T. SAMBANTHAN, P.M.N.

(Sungei Siput).

the Minister of Transport, DATO' HAJI SARDON BIN HAJI JUBIR, P.M.N.

(Pontian Utara).

the Minister of Health, ENCHE' BAHAMAN BIN SAMSUDIN (Kuala Pilah).
the Minister of Education, ENCHE' ABDUL RAHMAN BIN HAJI TALIB (Kuantan).

the Minister of Commerce and Industry, DR LIM SWEE AUN, J.P. (Larut Selatan).

the Minister for Welfare Services, TUAN HAJI ABDUL HAMID KHAN BIN HAJI SAKHAWAT ALI KHAN, J.M.N., J.P. (Batang Padang).

the Minister for Local Government and Housing, ENCHE' KHAW KAI BOH, P.J.K.

(Ulu Selangor).

the Minister for Sarawak Affairs, DATO' TEMENGGONG JUGAH ANAK BARIENG, P.M.N., P.D.K.

(Sarawak).
(Sarawak).

the Minister of Labour, ENCHE' V. MANICKAVASAGAM, J.M.N., P.J.K.

(Klang).

the Minister of Information and Broadcasting, ENCHE' SENU BIN ABDUL RAHMAN (Kubang Pasu Barat).

the Assistant Minister of Commerce and Industry, TUAN HAJI ABDUL KHALID BIN AWANG OSMAN (Kota Star Utara).

the Assistant Minister of Lands and Mines, ENCHE' MOHD.

GHAZALI BIN HAJI JAWI (Ulu Perak).


the Assistant Minister of National and Rural Development and Assistant Minister of Justice, ENCHE' ABDUL-RAHMAN BIN YA'KUB (Sarawak).

„ „ „ „ „ „ „ „ 355 21 MAY 1964 356 The Honourable the Assistant Minister of Agricuture and Co-operatives, „ „ „ „ „ „ „ „ „ „ „ „ „ „ „ „ „ „ „ „ „ „ „ „ „ „ „ „ „ „ ENCHE' SULAIMAN BIN BULON (Bagan Datoh).

the Assistant Minister of Youth, Culture and Sports, ENGKU MUHSEIN BIN ABDUL KADIR, J.M.N., P.J.K.

(Trengganu Tengah).
(Trengganu Tengah).

the Assistant Minister of Education, ENCHE' LEE SIOK YEW, A.M.N., P.J.K.

(Sepang).

ENCHE' ABDUL GHANI BIN ISHAK, A.M.N.

(Melaka Utara).

ENCHE' ABDUL KARIM BIN ABU, A.M.N.

(Malacca Selatan).

WAN ABDUL KADIR BIN ISMAIL (Kuala Trengganu Utara).

ENCHE' ABDUL RAHIM ISHAK (Singapore).

WAN ABDUL RAHMAN BIN DATU TUANKU BUJANG (Sarawak).

TUAN HAJI ABDUL RASHID BIN HAJI JAIS (Sabah).

ENCHE' ABDUL RAUF BIN A. RAHMAN, K.M.N., P.J.K.

(Krian Laut).
(Krian Laut).

ENCHE' ABDUL RAZAK BIN HAJI HUSSIN (Lipis).

ENCHE' ABDUL SAMAD BIN G UL AHMAD MIANJI (Pasir Mas Hulu).

DATO' ABDULLAH BIN ABDULRAHMAN, Dato' Bijaya di-Raja (Kuala Trengganu Selatan).

Y.A.M.

TUNKU ABDULLAH IBNI AL-MARHUM TUANKU ABDUL RAHMAN, P.P.T.

(Rawang).

TUAN HAJI ABDULLAH BIN HAJI MOHD.

SALLEH, A.M.N., S.M.J., P.I.S.

(Segamat Utara).

TUAN HAJI AHMAD BIN ABDULLAH (Kelantan Hilir).

ENCHE' AHMAD BIN ARSHAD, A.M.N.

(Muar Utara).

TUAN HAJI AHMAD BIN SAAID (Seberang Utara).


CHE' AJIBAH BINTI ABOL (Sarawak).

ENCHE' ALI BIN HAJI AHMAD (Pontian Selatan).

O. K. K. DATU ALIUDDIN BIN DATU HARUN, P.D.K.

(Sabah).

DR AWANG BIN HASSAN, S.M.J.

(Muar Selatan).

ENCHE' AZIZ BIN ISHAK (Muar Dalam).

ENCHE' JONATHAN BANGAU ANAK RENANG (Sarawak).

PENGARAH BANYANG ANAK JANTING (Sarawak).

ENCHE' CHAN CHONG WEN, A.M.N.

(Kluang Selatan).

ENCHE' CHAN SEONG YOON (Setapak).

ENCHE' CHEN WING SUM (Damansara).

ENCHE' CHIA CHIN SHIN (Sarawak).


ENCHE' FRANCIS CHIA NYUK TONG (Sabah).

ENCHE' CHIA THYE POH (Singapore).

ENCHE' CHIN FOON (Ulu Kinta).

ENCHE' C. V. DEVAN NAIR (Bungsar).

ENCHE' EDWIN ANAK TANGKUN (Sarawak).

DATIN FATIMAH BINTI HAJI ABDUL MAJID (Johor Bahru Timor).

DATIN FATIMAH BINTI HAJI HASHIM, P.M.N.

(Jitra-Padang Terap).

ENCHE' S. FAZUL RAHMAN, A.D.K.

(Sabah).

357 21 MAY 1964 358 The Honourable ENCHE' GANING BIN JANGKAT (Sabah).

ENCHE' GEH CHONG KEAT, K.M.N.

(Penang Utara).


ENCHE' HAMZAH BIN ALANG, A.M.N.

(Kapar).

ENCHE' HANAFI BIN MOHD.

YUNUS, A.M.N.

(Kulim Utara).

„ ENCHE' HANAFIAH BIN HUSSAIN (Jerai).

ENCHE' HARUN BIN ABDULLAH, A.M.N.

(Baling).

WAN HASSAN BIN WAN DAUD (Tumpat).

ENCHE' HO SEE BENG (Singapore).

ENCHE' STANLEY HO NGUN KHIU, A.D.K.

(Sabah).

ENCHE' HUSSEIN BIN T O' MUDA HASSAN (Raub).

ENCHE' HUSSEIN BIN MOHD.

NOORDIN, A.M.N., P.J.K.

(Parit).

ENCHE' HUSSEIN BIN SULAIMAN (Ulu Kelantan).


TUAN HAJI HUSSAIN RAHIMI BIN HAJI SAMAN (Kota Bharu Hulu).

ENCHE' IKHWAN ZAINI (Sarawak).

ENCHE' IBRAHIM BIN ABDUL RAHMAN (Seberang Tengah).

ENCHE' ISMAIL BIN IDRIS (Penang Selatan).

„ „ „ TUAN SYED JA'AFAR BIN HASAN ALBAR, J.M.N.

(Johore Tenggara).

ENCHE' JEK YEUN THONG (Singapore).

PENGHULU JINGGUT ANAK ATTAN (Sarawak).

ENCHE' KADAM ANAK KIAI (Sarawak).

ENCHE' KAM WOON WAH, J.P. (Sitiawan).

ENCHE' KHOO PENG LOONG (Sarawak).


DATO' KHOO SIAK CHIEW, P.D.K.

(Sabah).

ENCHE' K OW KEE SENG (Singapore).

ENCHE' EDMUND LANGGU ANAK SAGA (Sarawak).

ENCHE' LEE KUAN YEW (Singapore).

ENCHE' LEE SAN CHOON, K.M.N.

(Segamat Selatan).

ENCHE' LEE SECK FUN (Tanjong Malim).

ENCHE' AMADEUS MATHEW LEONG, A.D.K.

(Sabah).

ENCHE' LING BENG SIEW (Sarawak).

DR LIM CHONG EU (Tanjong).

ENCHE' LIM HUAN BOON (Singapore).

ENCHE' LIM KEAN SIEW (Dato Kramat).

DATO' LIM KIM SAN, D.U.T.

(Singapore).


ENCHE' LIM PEE HUNG (Alor Star).

ENCHE' PETER LO Su YIN (Sabah).

DR MAHATHIR BIN MOHAMAD (Kota Star Selatan).

ENCHE' T. MAHIMA SINGH, J.P. (Port Dickson).

„ ENCHE' JOE MANJAJI (Sabah).

DR HAJI MEGAT KHAS, J.P., P.J.K.

(Kuala Kangsar).

ENCHE' MOHD.

ARIF SALLEH, A.D.K.

(Sabah).

ENCHE' MOHAMED ASRI BIN HAJI MUDA (Pasir Puteh).

ORANG TUA MOHAMMAD DARA BIN LANGPAD (Sabah).

359 21 MAY 1964 360 The Honourable ENCHE' MOHD.

DAUD BIN ABDUL SAMAD (Besut).


„ „ „ „ „ „ „ „ „ ENCHE' MOHAMED IDRIS BIN MATSIL (Jelebu-Jempol).

ENCHE' MOHAMED NOORDIN BIN MASTAN, A.M.N., P.J.K.

(Seberang Selatan).

ENCHE' MOHD.

TAHIR BIN ABDUL MAJID, S.M.S., P.J.K.

(Kuala Langat).

ENCHE' MOHAMED YUSOF BIN MAHMUD, A.M.N.

(Temerloh).

ENCHE' MOHD.

ZAHIR BIN HAJI ISMAIL (vSungei Patani).

WAN MOKHTAR BIN AHMAD (Kemaman).

TUAN HAJI MOKHTAR BIN HAJI ISMAIL (Perlis Selatan).

ENCHE' MUHAMMAD FAKHRUDDIN BIN HAJI ABDULLAH (Pasir Mas Hilir).
TUAN HAJI MUHAMMAD SU'AUT BIN HAJI MUHD.

TAHIR (Sarawak).

DATO' HAJI MUSTAPHA BIN HAJI ABDUL JABAR, D.P.M.S., A.M.N., J.P. (Sabak Bernam).

ENCHE' MUSTAPHA BIN AHMAD (Tanah Merah).

DATO' NIK AHMAD KAMIL, D.K., S.P.M.K., S.M.J.K., P.M.N., P.Y.G.P., Dato' Sri Setia Raja (Kota Bharu Hilir).

ENCHE' NG FAH YAM (Batu Gajah).

DR NG KAM POH, J.P. (Telok Anson).

ENCHE' ONG KEE HUI (Sarawak).

ENCHE' ONG PANG BOON (Singapore).

TUAN HAJI OTHMAN BIN ABDULLAH (Hilir Perak).

ENCHE' OTHMAN BIN ABDULLAH, A.M.N.


(Perlis Utara) ABANG OTHMAN BIN HAJI MOASILI (Sarawak).

ENCHE' OTHMAN BIN WOK (Singapore).

ENCHE' QUEK KAI DONG, J.P. (Seremban Timor).

ENCHE' S. RAJARATNAM (Singapore).

TUAN HAJI RAHMAT BIN HAJI DAUD, A.M.N.

(Johore Bahru Barat).

ENCHE' RAMLI BIN OMAR (Krian Darat).

TUAN HAJI REDZA BIN HAJI MOHD.

SAID, J.P. (Rembau-Tampin).

RAJA ROME BIN RAJA MA'AMOR (Kuala Selangor).

ENCHE' SANDOM ANAK NYUAK (Sarawak).

ENCHE' SEAH TENG NGIAB, P.I.S.

(Muar Pantai).


ENCHE' D. R. SEENIVASAGAM (Ipoh).

ENCHE' S. P. SEENIVASAGAM (Menglembu).

ENCHE' SIM BOON LIANG (Sarawak).

ENCHE' SIOW LOONG HIN, P.J.K.

(Seremban Barat).

ENCHE' SNG CHIN JOO (Sarawak).

DATU DONALD ALOYSIUS STEPHENS, P.D.K.

(Sabah).

ENCHE' SULEIMAN BIN ALI (Dungun).

PENGIRAN TAHIR PETRA (Sabah).

ENCHE' TAJUDIN BIN ALI, P.J.K.

(Larut Utara).

ENCHE' TAI KUAN YANG (Kulim Bandar Bharu).

DR TAN CHEE KHOON (Batu).

ENCHE' TAN CHENG BEE, J.P. (Bagan).


361 21 MAY 1964 362 The Honourable ENCHE' TAN TOH HONG (Bukit Bintang).

„ „ ENCHE' TAN TSAK YU (Sarawak).

ENCHE' TIAH ENG BEE (Kluang Utara).

DR TOH CHIN CHYE (Singapore).

ENCHE' TOH THEAM HOCK (Kampar).

PENGHULU FRANCIS UMPAU ANAK EMPAM (Sarawak).

ENCHE' YEH PAO TZE (Sabah).

ENCHE' YEOH TAT BENG (Bruas).

ENCHE' STEPHEN YONG KUET TZE (Sarawak).

ENCHE' YONG NYUK LIN (Singapore).

TUAN HAJI ZAKARIA BIN HAJI MOHD.

TAIB (Langat).


The Honourable the Minister of Home Affairs and Minister of Justice, ABSENT: „ „ „ DATO' DR ISMAIL BIN DATO' HAJI ABDUL RAHMAN, P.M.N.

(Johor Timor).

the Minister of Finance, ENCHE' TAN SIEW SIN, J.P. (Melaka Tengah).

the Minister of Agriculture and Co-operatives, ENCHE' MOHAMED KHIR BIN JOHARI (Kedah Tengah).

ENCHE' CHAN SIANG SUN (Bentong).

DATU GANIE GILONG, P.D.K., J.P. (Sabah).

DR GOH KENG SWEE (Singapore).

ENCHE' SOH AH TECK (Batu Pahat).


ENCHE' TAN KEE GAK (Bandar Melaka).

ENCHE' WEE TOON BOON (Singapore).

PRAYERS Debate resumed.


Mr Speaker in the Chair) MOTION THE YANG DI-PERTUAN AGONG'S SPEECH Address of Thanks Order read for resumption of debate on Question, "That an humble Address be presented to His Majesty the Yang di-Pertuan Agong as follows: 'Your Majesty, We, the Speaker and Members of the Dewan Ra'ayat Malaysia in Parliament assembled, beg leave to offer Your Majesty our humble thanks for the Gracious Speech with which the First Session of the Second Parliament has been ooened.'"
Enche' Ali bin Haji Ahmad (Pontian Selatan): Tuan Yang di-Pertua, pada petang semalam saya baharu sempat menyentoh sadikit sahaja uchapan atau pun perbahathan Ahli Yang Berhormat dari Pasir Puteh.

Patut saya ulang sadikit untok mengingatkan sa-mula ia-itu Ahli Yang Berhormat dari Pasir Puteh chuba mengingatkan atau meng- ajar kita tentang erti dasar chinta kapada perdamaian dan benchi kapada peperangan.
Soal yang kita hadap pada ketika ini ia-lah bukan lagi soal, apa-kah polisi atau dasar Kerajaan Perikatan.

Memang sejak daripada kita menchapai kemerdekaan, dasar kita ia-lah perdamaian dan benchikan peperangan.

Di-mana juga timbul-nya kekerasan dan peperangan kita menentang sama ada daripada blok barat atau blok timor.
Jadi dalam hal ini bukan-lah soal kita chinta ia-lah soal damai atau chintakan tetapi tidak 363 21 MAY 1964 364 ini apabila terutama telah di-hadapkan konfrantasi yang kapada kita, di-lancharkan oleh Kera- jaan President Soekarno, Kerajaan daripada negara tetangga yang sa-lama ini kita hormati sa-bagai saudara tua.

Ta' payah Ahli Yang Berhormat itu chuba mengajar kita.

Jadi siapa-kah melancharkan dasar konfrantasi, kita atau Kerajaan President Soekarno?
Siapa-kah yang belligerent, kita atau Kerajaan President Soekarno?

Ini dia soal-nya.

Dan konfrantasi di-lancharkan terhadap kita, sa-bagai satu bangsa dan negara yang mem- punyai maruah, sa-bagai satu bangsa dan negara yang ingin hidup di-dalam dunia, kita berhak mempertahankan diri, kita berhak menjaga maruah, kita berhak menjaga keutohan negara, kita berhak mengekalkan kemerdekaan kita.

semua di- Ada-kah perbuatan anggap sa-bagai perbuatan orang yang sukakan peperangan?
Dan sekarang saya kemukakan chabaran dan saya minta sa-kali parti PAS, Socialist Front, Barisan Socialist supaya terang2 di-dalam Dewan menyatakan ini bahawa ada-kah yang mereka itu menyokong atau menentang atau ber kechuali terhadap pelancharan kon frantasi terhadap kita daripada Kera jaan President Soekarno.
Ada-kah mereka menyokong, menentang atau berkechuali terhadap "ganyang Malay sia" oleh President Soekarno dan tegas2 Kerajaan-nya di-dalam Dewan" ini supaya kita tahu warna masing2 parti untok kepentingan negara.

Ada-kah mereka menyokong, menentang lagi terhadap pencherobohan gurila2 yang di-hantarkan sana.

Tegaskan di-sini.
Tegaskan di-sini.

Ada-kah mereka juga menyokong atau menentang atau berkechuali terhadap saboteurs yang di-kirim dari Indonesia, banyak dari- pada-nya yang telah meletupkan bom di-Singapura atau sa-bagai-nya.

Nyata kan sikap terhadap ini semua.


Ini-lah sikap saya minta, Tuan Yang di-Per- tua, supaya kita tahu kedudokan ma sing2 parti di-dalam Dewan ini, supaya ra'ayat dapat menghakimkan mana-kah parti yang sa-sunggoh-nya memper tahankan parti yang sa-sunggoh-nya mempertahankan bangsa kita sesuai dengan sumpah kita negara, mana-kah itu?

Nyatakan berkechuali Indonesia atau dari yang telah di-angkat pada 18 haribulan.
Kita telah mengangkat sumpah mem pertahankan Malaysia, tetapi perbuatan kita, sikap kita tidak demikian.

Maka kita mengikut kalau takut, saya terutama sa-kali keperchayaan Islam di-makan PAS, maka akan kita sumpah.

sumpah.

Kita mengangkat kita sumpah maka tidak mengikut kita akan di-makan sumpah.

saya ia-lah lawan issue dalam pilehan Dan juga di-dalam pilehan raya yang lepas, soal yang paling hangat di- jadikan raya ia-lah konfrantasi Malaysia.

Ini soal saya yang paling besar.


Di-tempat di-dalam pilehan raya kawasan Pontian Selatan, parti Socialist Front.

Salah satu soal yang besar yang di-bawa-nya ka-mana2 juga ia-lah konfrantasi, keamanan; undi Perikatan berperang, undi Socialist Front keamanan.

Dengan issue ini juga tenggelam-nya chalun parti Socialist Front itu; bukan sadikit tenggelam-nya.
Undi yang saya dapat lebeh sa-kali ganda daripada undi Socialist Front dan dengan issue ini juga banyak-lah tenggelam parti Socialist Front dan chalun2 daripada parti2 lain.

Dan agak lawan yang juga kechiwa dalam saya masok ini kerana saya berharap Parlimen dapat bertentang dengan wakil2 ra'ayat mithal-nya daripada bekas Ahli Yang Berhormat dari Bungsar.

Tetapi dengan issue konfrantasi tenggelam-lah bekas Ahli Yang Berhormat itu dan tidak dapat ber- kechiwa-lah tentangan dengan-nya di-dalam Dewan ini.
chalun2 daripada saya ini sejarah berulang juga menyatakan Yang Berhormat daripada Pasir Puteh ranchangan damai.

Patut saya ulangi, kita tidak kembali.

hendak Pernah Chamberlain berlutut kapada Hitler meminta damai.

Saya tidak rela Perdana Menteri kita berlutut meminta damai kapada President Soekarno.

Kita tidak mahu peace at any cost and at any price, kita mahu keamanan dengan kehormatan kita di-hormati.

Ini yang kita mahu, ini sikap kita.

Ada-kah sikap ini sikap orang yang suka kapada peperangan?
Jadi, se karang nyata-lah sudah sikap kita.

juga Pagi sa-malam telah di-sentoh 365 21 MAY 1964 366 tidak Israil Israil.

terhadap soal kita dengan Israil, patut saya nyatakan bahawa apabila Persekutuan menchapai kemerdekaan-nya maka kita masok ka-dalam Bangsa2 Bersatu.

Israil telah memang ada menjadi anggota Bangsa2 Bersatu.

Pengakuan kita lebeh Israil sa-bagai anggota yang telah di-i'tiraf oleh Bangsa2 Bersatu.
Kita telah di-minta mengadakan hubongan diplo matic, akan tetapi kita tidak menerima, kita tidak mahu mengadakan hubongan diplomatic dengan Ini sikap kita, ini polisi kita.

Kemudian apabila pasokan bola Israil minta sepak datang ka-mari hendak masok dalam tidak menerima pertandingan, kita itu.

Ada-kah sikap2 pasokan yang sa-umpama ini di-katakan kita menyebelah Israil?
Sa-balek-nya pula dalam perjuangan umat Arab chontoh- nya umat Aljeria yang menentang penjajahan Peranchis, kita tidak me nyebelah kapada penjajahan, tetapi kita menyokong dengan sa-berapa daya upaya yang ada pada kita yang ada pada tenaga Kerajaan kita, kita me nyokong perjuangan ra'ayat Aljeria.

Ini sikap kita.

Dan daripada bukti ini jelas-lah bahawa tidak-lah kita menye Israil, sa-kadarkan mengakui belah Israil yang lebeh dahulu sa- belum kita merdeka di-terima menjadi anggota Bangsa2 Bersatu.
Itu-lah sahaja pengakuan kita, lebeh dari itu.

Dan ini-lah yang kita kata- kan sikap kita yang bebas tidak me nyebelah ka-mana2.

Kita tidak menjadi perkakas barat, kita tidak pula men jadi perkakas belok kominis.

Kita tahu sikap sa-tengah daripada parti2 siasah dalam negeri ini kalau kesa- lahan itu di-lakukan puak barat maka mereka menghentam habis2an penja tetapi kalau kesalahan atau jahan, itu di-lakukan oleh puak kekerasan tidak kominis, sa-patah pun mereka berbunyi.
Ini-kah yang di-namakan dasar bebas?

Ini-kah yang di-nama kan dasar berkechuali dari belok dunia?

Dasar bebas Kerajaan kami juga yang Perikatan melakukan kesalahan kita tidak me- nyetujui-nya dan kita membangkang.

ia-lah siapa tidak telah Tuan Yang di-dalam negara demokrasi harus-lah ada rasa ra'ayat hormat-menghormati di-Pertua, antara dan lebeh orang2 sama ra'ayat, antara parti siasah sama2 parti siasah.

Saya dapati kerap benar pehak P.A.P.


merendah2kan parti2 lawan dan merendah2kan orang2 dari pada parti lawan.

Dan pehak P.A.P.

pernah berkata bahawa orang2 di- luar bandar, maksud-nya orang2 yang menyokong Perikatan.

orang2 yang menyokong UMNO, kurang sophisti cated dalam hal politik.

Dan orang2 sophisticated.

yang di-bandar Patut saya ingatkan bahawa chakap2 yang sa-umpama itu tidak akan dapat terchapai-nya menolong melekaskan semua persatuan perpaduan luar ra'ayat.
Kita tahu di-kawasan sa-bilangan besar daripada bandar ia-lah terdiri daripada orang ra'ayat Melayu.

Mengatakan luar itu bandar less sophisticated maka ini satu penghinaan kapada bererti bangsa Melayu.

Sa-lagi itu maseh terus-menerus di-perkatakan, maka sa-lagi itu, patut saya ingatkan, P.A.P.

tidak akan dapat sokongan daripada orang2 Melayu (Tepok).

Ini patut saya ingatkan, kalau-lah P.A.P.


hendak mendapat sokongan daripada orang lupakan-lah soal hina-meng- Melayu hina dalam perjuangan parti2 politik di-negeri ini.

Kalau-lah P.A.P.

hendak melekaskan hasrat terchapai-nya perpaduan bangsa di-negeri kita soal rendah-merendah di-dalam perjuangan politik.
Di-dalam negara demokrasi kita hormat-menghormati parti2 lawan, saya hormati parti P.A.P., tetapi saya tidak dapat hendak menghormati sikap dan chakap2 rendah-merendah, hina- menghina di-antara parti2 siasah dalam negeri ini.

Patut saya ingatkan kalau- lah orang2 di-bandar sophisticated da lam politik mengapa-kah P.A.P.

tidak dapat undi semua orang2 Singapura, orang2 sophisticated yang di-katakan- nya!
Maseh banyak lagi Barisan Sosialis mendapat undi di-Singapura, ini sophisticated yang di-anggap oleh pehak P.A.P.

orang yang pintar dalam politik.

Jadi, soal sophisticated atau tidak di-dalam politik bukan-lah terletak di-antara luar bandar dan di-dalam bandar.

Soal-nya ia-lah keperchayaan ra'ayat.

Orang2 Melayu telah meletakkan kapada UMNO keperchayaan-nya juga orang2 yang rendah-merendah lupakan-lah dan ini 367 21 MAY 1964 368 pahit kerana pimpinan UMNO telah men- chapaikan kemerdekaan negeri ini.
Pimpinan UMNO telah memberikan kesenangan kapada ra'ayat, pimpinan UMNO telah memberikan keamanan kapada ra'ayat.

Orang2 yang datang daripada bandar tidak ada dan tidak tahu sa-benar2-nya dan merasa bagai- mana kekachauan getir-nya dalam masa dharurat.

Saya yang tinggal dalam kampong, saya yang menoreh getah, saya pernah menang- kap ikan, saya pernah memanching ikan di-sungai, saya tahu betapa pahit getir-nya kehidupan orang2 di-kam- pong.
Dan dengan berkat pimpinan UMNO telah terchapai-lah keamanan dalam negeri ini, dan oleh kerana itu ra'ayat perchayakan pimpinan UMNO, dan di-kampong2 sa-bahagian yang terdiri daripada orang terbesar-nya Melayu.

Maka orang2 Melayu per chayakan pimpinan UMNO.

Ini soal- nya.

Dan sa-terus-nya ra'ayat perchaya dapat pimpinan UMNO-lah ra memberikan kebahagian kapada 'ayat, bukan-lah atau tidak-nya, ini tidak timbul.
Sa-makin selalu, sa-makin keras dan sa-makin banyak di-chakapkan sophisti cated, pandai atau tidak pandai orang2 di-luar bandar, maka sa-makin tipis- lah harapan parti P.A.P.

untok men- dapat sokongan daripada orang2 di- luar bandar.

sophisticated yang soal Enche' D. R. Seenivasagam (Ipoh): (Rises).

Mr Speaker: Boleh benarkan dia berchakap sadikit!

Enche' D. R. Seenivasagam: Mr Speaker, Sir, on a point of clarification.

The Honourable speaker said, "The leadership of UMNO, UMNO, UMNO, .

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What has happened to the M.C.A.

and M.I.C?

Hirelings or underlings—what has happened?

(Laughter).

Enche' All bin Haji Ahmad: Tuan Yang di-Pertua, huraian-nya bagini: "Di-kawasan luar bandar sa-bahagian terbesar daripada pendudok2-nya ia-lah orang2 Melayu terdiri dan daripada orang2 Melayu ini ia-lah ahli2 UMNO, sebab itu-lah saya berkata pimpinan UMNO di-luar bandar."

Saya harap, daripada sa-bilangan terbesar Tuan Yang di-Pertua, Ahli Yang Berhormat terang dari dengan penjelasan saya ini.
Ipoh itu itu ia-lah juga juga Kemudian saya pergi pula kapada soal gerakan Trade Union.

Kita tahu, telah banyak belajar daripada kita gerakan Trade Union di-Singapura.

Bertahun2 saya di-Singapura.

Bertahun2 saya memerhatikan dari dekat tentang gerakan Trade Union di-Singapura.

Apa hendak buat, Singapura mempunyai autonomy dalam soal buroh erti-nya termasok dalam soal Trade Union.

Sa-benar-nya Trade Union di-Singapura sudah di-jadikan alat dalam perjuangan parti2 politik yang tertentu.
Jadi sa-bahagian besar daripada perjuangan Trade Union di-Singapura perjuangan untok kepentingan, untok tektik per juangan sa-suatu parti politik yang tertentu.

Jadi, soal kepentingan kaum buroh, soal kepentingan Trade Union, soal kebajikan kaum buroh sudah menjadi soal yang kedua.

Soal strategy parti2 politik itu-lah yang menjadi soal utama.
Hal yang sa-umpama ini, biar kalau di-Singapura ta' usah saya sentoh, sebab Singapura mempunyai' hak autonomy-nya sendiri dalam hal tersebut, tetapi saya berharap bahawa perkara yang sa-umpama ini, gerakan Trade Union, Gerakan Buroh di- negeri2 di-sini dan juga di-Sabah dan Sarawak sana dapat di-perlindongi daripada di-jadikan alat oleh parti2 politik.
Saya berharap Undang2 Trade Union di-tinjau kembali supaya dapat kita memperlindongi kepentingan kaum buroh, supaya dapat kita memperlin dongi Trade Union, supaya gerakan Trade Union dapat memberi kebajikan, dapat memberi faedah kapada kaum buroh.

sa-benar2-nya tersebut Jadi, perlu juga saya rasa di-adakan pembersehan dalam gerakan Trade Union supaya maksud ter- chapai.
Kalau-lah gerakan Trade Union sudah ada yang di-peralatkan, maka ini di-tinjau saya berharap perkara sa-mula supaya sa-benar2-nya-lah kita dapat memperlindongi kaum buroh.

kembali Undang2 Trade Meninjau Union bukan bererti kita memehak tetapi yang kapada kaum capitalist, kita perlukan ia-lah memperlindongi kepentingan kaum buroh.
Tentang 369 21 MAY 1964 370 itu, ia-itu kita chara2 memperlindongi-nya ta' payah-lah di-bicharakan di-sini, hanya saya menyatakan pada prinsip-nya sahaja tinjau-lah kembali Undang2 Trade Union kita supaya kepentingan gerakan kaum buroh, kepentingan kaum buroh di-negeri kita ini di- di-perlindongi perbaiki.

dapat dan yang puak Dalam masaalah konfrantasi bukan sahaja soal dari segi tentera, atau polis yang penting, tetapi soal daripada segi psychology juga penting.
Sa-bagaimana kita menghadapi dharurat dahulu ia-itu kita usahakan chara2-nya supaya orang2 itu, terpengaroh oleh kominis yang orang2 muda yang di-pengarohi oleh kominis itu merasa bahawa mereka itu mempunyai kepentingan dalam negeri ini, supaya mereka itu merasa diri itu berhak untok bersama2 mereka menekmati keadaan hidup di-negeri ini.
Jadi, dalam hal ini, saya berpaling kapada P.A.P lagi, sebab wakil dari pada tertentu orang di-Singapura tidak ada dalam Dewan Ra'ayat ini, biar-lah saya menyuara- kan-nya.

Orang2 Melayu di-Singapura merasa tertindeh.

tersepit, merasa Orang2 Melayu di-Singapura menun- tut supaya mereka di-ambil masok dalam badan2 Kerajaan.

Soal gerai di-Geylang pun boleh saya sebutkan juga, tetapi ta' perlu-lah kerana detail sangat.

Segala kehendak orang2 kita Melayu di-Singapura itu di-chemohkan oleh pehak P.A.P.
dengan mengatakan itu perkauman, ini perkauman.

Ingat- lah!

Kalau orang2 Melayu di-Singapura merasa mereka tidak ada kepentingan takut kita di-Singapura, maka saya akan merasa lebeh sulit, lebeh sulit daripada menghadapi konfrantasi Indonesia sa-chara langsong dan ber- hadapan.

Kita hendakkan ini, Kerajaan tudoh kita, Kerajaan chemohkan kita, kata-nya.

Saya ta' hendak lebeh kerap bom berlaku di-Singapura daripada tempat2 lain dalam Malaysia nanti.

Jadi, saya harap pehak P.A.P.


akan •memberi perhatian, dan melaksanakaa kehendak2 mereka, bukan hanya sa- takat merakamkan di-dalam Perlem- bagaan Singapura, tetapi mengamalkan dengan sa-sunggoh-nya.

Saya harap soal gerai di-Geylang telah di-selesai- kan dengan baik-nya.

Sa-masa saya dahulu, di-Singapura dua saya mendengar minggu ini dan ra'ayat2 Melayu segala2-nya di-Singapura minta saya sampaikan dalam Parlimen ini tentang keadaan orang2 Melayu di-Singapura.
Tidak berguna mengaku yang mereka tidak perkauman, tetapi pada amalan-nya perkauman juga.

Ini yang saya kehen- daki: Jalankan-lah, kalau tidak orang2 Melayu sama-lah di-Singapura sa- kedudokan-nya tengah2 orang China dalam masa dharurat dahulu, mudah menjadi mangsa.

Dan dalam hal ini kita ta' hendak Malaysia kita kachau, kerana sikap sa-suatu Kerajaan Negeri yang pada hakikat-nya merbahayakan Ma laysia.
sa-bagaimana Jadi juga ia-lah Kerajaan Ahli Yang Berhormat dari Ipoh telah berkata minta sa-malam kita mengikut Kerajaan Singapura, khas-nya dalam soal University Nan yang.

Saya ingin mengingatkan Ahli Yang Berhormat itu bahawa Kerajaan Pusat.

Perikatan Kerajaan Singapura hanya Kerajaan sa-buah Negeri.

sa-patut-nya kalau kita hendak fikirkan logic-nya, Kerajaan Negeri-lah patut mengikut Kerajaan Pusat, dan bukan- lah Kerajaan Pusat yang patut mengi kut Kerajaan Negeri.
Kalau Singapura hendak mengakui* Nanyang University, maka oleh kerana Singapura mem- punyai' autonomy dalam soal pelajaran, itu soal Singapura, ini tidak boleh di-kenakan kapada Kera jaan Pusat.

tetapi logic yang soal Satu lagi.

Bertahun2 saya di-Singapura.

Banyak pergaulan saya dengan mahasiswa2 Nanyang Univer sity.

Boleh di-katakan tahu saya banyak tentang kedudokan juga-lah yang sa-benar-nya di-dalam Nanyang tentang tarafl pelajaran dalam Nanyang saya.
Hasil Penyata itu; tahu-lah Gwee Ah Ling terhadap Nanyang University sudah-kah di-selesaikan di- Singapura atau belum?

Sedang kalau atau Nanyang Singapura sendiri belum dapat menghuraikan hasil2 Penyata Gwee Ah Ling itu, maka macham mana pula-lah kita di-sini terus-menerus hendak mengaku itu?
kelulusan Nanyang University hendak Soal Kerajaan Singapura sendiri 371 21 MAY 1964 372 itu jadi mengambil orang2 yang lulus daripada Nanyang bekerja dengan-nya itu ada- lah soal Singapura—Singapura mem- punya'i autonomy dalam banyak hal.

soal mengambil orang2 Boleh yang lulus daripada Nanyang Univer sity satu itu hanya-lah merupakan alat politik untok memenangi Pilehan tidak Raya di-Singapura, dan kita hendak menggunakan sa-bagai satu alat politik kita hendak menang itu lagi Pilehan Raya.
Tidak payah kita sudah menang dengan hebat dalam Pilehan Raya (Tepok), bahkan juga parti yang menggunakan tidak menang, hanya sahaja menang daripada beberapa kerusi di- Pilehan Raya yang lepas di-sini.

Jadi, ini menunjokkan saya rasa mentality kita dalam soal politik sophisticated juga.

Kita tidak akan menerima apa juga yang berlaku di-Singapura itu-lah harus berlaku di-sini.

Kalau parti itu menang di-Singapura pun maka parti itu menang di-sini.

Lojik tidak berjalan di-sini.


satu itu ini itu luar atau jangan-lah di-kata Soal pembangunan bandar tidak payah-lah saya sentoh dengan lebar, soal burok baik-nya.

panjang parti2 Pembangkang Hanya kalau hendak berkata juga lagi biar-lah yang menasabah, ran- changan pembangunan luar bandar itu sa-bagai-nya.
tidak berfaedah Ada-kah membuat kelinik tidak berfaedah, ada-kah membuat sekolah di-kawasan luar bandar itu tidak ber jalan faedah dan ada-kah membuat tanah sama ada jalan besar atau merah di-kawasan itu tidak berfaedah?

Jawab-lah masing2.

Biar-lah saya tidak payah memberi jawapan.


Tetapi apa yang pasti kapada jalan kita, kalau kita buat tanah merah parti2 turut sama berjalan atas jalan tanah merah itu, masok kampong2 menggunakan ran- luar bandar changan pembangunan hendak menang untok dalam pilehan tetapi banyak yang kalah juga.
luar bandar berkempen lawan raya, itu Kalau susah2 sangat berfikir, bagini- lah: kalau ranchangan pembangunan ini tidak mendatangkan luar bandar faedah, parti2 lawan mengatakan ini tidak mendatangkan jangan- lah berjalan atas jalan raya, jangan-lah faedah, berjalan atas tanah merah, berjalan- lah dalam parit (Ketawa) atau pun berjalan-lah atas akar2 kayu atau pun melompat2 dari dahan ka-dahan atau dari ranting ka-ranting pokok kayu.
Chuba-lah buat bagitu ran changan pembangunan luar bandar itu tidak berfaedah konon.

Dan kalau hendak beranak ya'ani bersalin jangan pergi ka-kelinik, bersalin-lah di-banir kempas.

sebab Saya tidak payah rasa-nya hendak berchakap panjang lagi, hendak me- nyentoh segala soal.

Pada akhir-nya, saya menguchapkan sa-tinggi2 tahniah atas Titah Uchapan di-Raja pada Pembukaan Session Parlimen ini.

ini.
ini.

Tetapi Dr Tan Chee Khoon (Batu): Tuan Yang di-Pertua, saya bangun untok terima kaseh kapada menguchapkan Duli Yang Maha Mulia Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong atas Titah-nya kapada Dewan Yang Ber- terlebeh dahulu hormat oleh hendak menguchapkan, saya kerana saya datang daripada kawasan Batu, saya berharap Ahli2 di-Dewan Ra'ayat ini jangan-lah ingat saya ia- lah sa-orang "mulut batu".
Saya ingin mengambil peluang di-sini mengulang ta'at setia kami dari Front Socialist Ra'ayat kapada Kebawah Duli, ka pada Negara dan kapada Perlemba- gaan yang menjamin demokerasi ber- parlimen dalam Negara kita ini.

Tuan Yang di-Pertua, saya ingin hendak menyentoh beberapa perkara dalam Titah Kebawah Duli itu, ter- utama atas perkara Malaysia.

Dalam saya soal Malaysia menyentoh suka menjelaskan sa-mula lagi kapada Dewan Yang Berhormat sikap Partai kami tersebut.
Tuan Yang di-Pertua, saya sekarang minta keizinan untok saya memberi uchapan bahasa Inggeris.

terhadap soal di-dalam saya ini ini the Member Mr Speaker, Sir, like the previous for Pontian speaker, Selatan, I too am a new Member of this House.

In a sense I too am a green horn, or a freshie, as a senior in a university would call such a person.

But I can assure Honourable Members of this House that I am not exactly a political virgin.

(Laughter).
(Laughter).

373 21 MAY 1964 374 Mr Speaker, Sir, as I have said in the national language, I come from the constituency of Batu, and I do hope that Honourable Members of this House will not regard me, as they call language, "mulut it in the national batu", as I can well produce about a verbal diarrhoea should the occasion arise.

Mr Speaker, Sir, before I go on to my main topic of Malaysia, may I, with your permission, comment on some of the speeches of the previous Honourable speakers.
The Member for Hilir Perak has commented on the Ministry of Welfare, and I do support him on the establishment of this new Ministry.

Later on I shall comment on what I think should be the function of this new Ministry.

He has also commented a great deal on the PAP, and for the Honourable Member Pontian Selatan, I hope, has indicated to the PAP in no uncertain manner what the UMNO thinks of the PAP.
Here, if I may interject a little, the Honourable Member for Ipoh stood up and was a little perturbed and, perhaps, nonplussed as to why it was the UMNO, UMNO, UMNO the time.

He wanted significance of the MIC in this set-up of the Alliance Party, and I do not think he did get a satisfactory reply from the Member truth of for Pontian Selatan.
The the matter, Mr Speaker, is that the ill-conceived Alliance Party the marriage of convenience with UMNO as two the husband and the MIC the persons of wives and the MCA.

And you had during the the unsavoury spectacle of yet another party trying to be yet another wife of the UMNO.

I refer to the attempts of the PAP to woo the UMNO.

(Laughter).

Mr Speaker, Sir, later on I shall comment a little further on this aspect of it.

I hope satisfactory the Honourable Member answer for Ipoh.
all to ask about the MCA and I have given a recent elections is an to in Mr Speaker, Sir, for the Honourable Member also touched on the election irregularities.

My colleague, the Member from Dato Kramat, in his speech no doubt will Ipoh yesterday for to make also touch a bit on it.

For my part, I do not wish to rehash what the Ipoh has Honourable Member said.

I merely want two comments.

There was no doubt that there was intimidation on the part of the Alliance Party on a mass scale.
It happened in my constituency of Batu.

Mr Speaker, Sir, in the consti tuency of Batu there is the Sungei Buloh Settlement which has 1,500- plus voters.

Naturally, all the three parties concerned campaigned in that settlement and I as a doctor perhaps had a little edge over my worthy colleagues in that place.

For instance, I went to every ward and I shook hands with every patient: I did not wash my hands after shaking hands with them.
Whenever I met an Indian patient I could speak to him "Vana- kam, En per Dr Tan Chee Khoon.

Soru sappittachal" I could speak to the Tamil patient in the language that he understood.

I could also speak to the Punjabi patient, Mr Speaker, Sir— Babuji, nam khya hail Khana khata hail" So, I went from house to house and from bed to bed and I think I did create a good impression amongst the patients of Sungei Buloh Settle ment.
But my worthy opponents, perhaps, because it was a Leper Asylum, did not dare to go near the patients until they found out that this rascal of Tan Chee Khoon had an edge over them.

So, they too went and saw a few patients.

Mr Speaker, Sir, came polling day, and what was the result?

Our supporters in that area did not dare to put up a pondok.

There was only one pondok in Sungei Buloh Settlement and that pondok was put up by the Alliance Party.

Our supporters did not dare.

What is the reason?


The Alliance Party went round and said, "If you vote the chilaka Socialist Front, you will get discharged tomorrow."

That was what happened, Mr Speaker, Sir.

In 1959 the previous Medical Superintendent did exactly the same thing.

I am glad to say that despite this intimidation I had a fair measure of support from the voters in Sungei Buloh.
I shall comment on another irregu larity that I know of: Mr Speaker, 375 21 MAY 1964 376 to the and to admitted reasons best known that was when one presiding Sir, officer took it into his head to issue only one ballot paper to four voters.

As you know, Mr Speaker, Sir, in the recent elections every voter was en titled to two votes—one at Federal level.

But level and one at State for this presiding officer, he issued one ballot the parlia paper and that was for it was pointed mentary seat.
When the senior presiding officer out he then fact, when this was brought to the attention of the presiding officer concerned, he too admitted the fact, and that is all recorded.

When it was asked how could one settle this miscarriage of justice, one was told "Oh, the error has been rectified."

Mr Speaker, Sir, I rectification do not know what that consisted of.
As you know, Mr Spea ker, Sir, once a voter leaves the polling booth and gets out of the polling compound and gets milled up in the sur thousands of rounded the polling compound, 1 think, it is physically impossible to call the voter back and rectify the mistake.

He might have gone.

After voting he might have gone to Port Dickson for a sea bath having voted for the right party.
Mr Speaker, Sir, this is another irregularity, and I only wish to bring up to the attention of this House these two irregularities.

supporters that the various Mr Speaker, Sir, the Honourable Member for Ipoh also stated that we on this side of the House would like to have a little more information on the qualification of Ministers and the Chairman of statutory bodies.

He, in particular, referred to the qualifications of the Assistant Minister of Education for his post.
I do hope that for the education of this side of the House, when it comes to the Government to reply, they would at least enlighten the Honourable Member for Ipoh—and I too would like to be enlightened on this matter.

front-benchers Mr Speaker, Sir, the Honourable Member for Ipoh also asked for the recognition of the Nanyang University.

this produced a very I notice the Honourable from harsh reply that in from rightly, degrees the Member Member for Pontian Selatan.
I think people on the other side of the House get hot under the collar very easily, Mr Speaker.

I think the Member for Ipoh was wrong in saying that the the Nanyang recognised PAP has University—(Interpolation) he says he did not say that.

The true position is that they have employed graduates of the Nanyang University and they have not recognised the degrees of Nanyang University.
Mr Speaker, Sir, I do not see anything wrong in asking for the recognition of the Nanyang University, or for that matter the recognition of any university provided the academic standards are right.

For example, if I remember the previous House lots of people on the other side of the House asked for the recognition the Al-Azhar of University where I had the privilege to meet some of them when I went round the university there.
I do not see the logic of for Pontian Selatan when he says that because the university is situated in Singapore, how can we in the Federation recognise such a university?

That coming from an honours graduate of the University of Malaya is, to say the least, puerile, because if you take that logic then you can only recognise the degrees from the University of Malaya and perhaps the University of Singapore and no body else.

If that is so, how are we to man the public services in this coun try?
And we know that in this House from there are so many graduates venerable universities all over the world, and if you look around you you will find that Oxford, Cambridge, the London University, Australian Univer sities are all represented in this House.

If we follow the logic of the Honour for Pontian Selatan, able Member those universities are then, because in a certain place we not situated cannot those universities.

We in the Socialist Front also asked the Nanyang for University degrees.
I do not see any thing wrong in that request, provided there are the academic standards.

Surely, in a mat ter of the recognition of a University degree, the paramount importance is to the recognition of safeguards regarding recognise 377 21 MAY 1964 378 see whether the academic standards of that University measure up to accept able standards.

the response Mr Speaker, Sir, the country.


As for to the Honourable Member for Ipoh also mentioned the question of equality, and I think this is a good time to dwell a little on this matter of equality.

We are faced with a very grave crisis—confrontation.

Every Member spouts confrontation in this House and outside this House.
Quite rightly the citizens of this country are asked to register and, perhaps, when the call-up comes up, to rise up to the occasion and rally round in the defence the Honourable of Ipoh has stated, Member the this has been over response whelming.

Now, is if overwhelming and if citizens of this country are asked to take up arms and to die in the defence of this country, when it comes to the defence of the country, everybody is equal.
Nobody says that if you are not of such and such race, you would not be called up, and that if you are of such and such race, you would be called up; or that— if we take that there should be really a shooting war—one particular race will be shot dead and the other race will not be shot dead.

All of us must be prepared to spill our blood and die in the defence of the country.
If you ask a person to register, to enrol, and to die for the defence of the country, then surely you must consider the fact that a person who is asked to make such a sacrifice should be given equality of status.

To that extent, Mr Speaker, Sir, the I Honourable Member for Ipoh.
the request of fully support Mr Speaker, Sir, unfortunately, or otherwise, the Member for Ipoh spoke on multi-lingualism and, as I have said, Honourable Members on the opposite side of the House get very hot under the collar when multi- lingualism is mentioned.

For my part, Sir, I am not so easily excited, and I am quite prepared to argue till the cows come home with the Honourable Member for Ipoh on the virtues or otherwise o[ multi-lingualism.
I do not easily get hot under the collar because somebody for multi- lingualism.

Mr Speaker, Sir, it must asked has that supports, multi-lingualism.

not be taken that I support, or my Party I only say if anything emanates from this House, please let us not get hot under the collar on the opposite side of the House.

Let us in a cool and calm manner debate this matter or any other matters that are brought up by Members on this side of the House.
Mr Speaker, Sir, the Honourable Member for Pontian Selatan also stated, if I may quote from his speech, that "in the years to come we will not be afraid of other races and we will be prepared to compete with them on equal terms."

Mr Speaker, Sir, that is a very reassuring statement to us in this side of the House.
Although we do realise that there may be a place for special rights of the Malays in this country, in the long term it is not to the advantage of anybody to have special rights; and I am glad that at least one Member on the opposite side of this House recognises that and is prepared to say that in the years to come the Malays will not take things lying down and that the Malays will be prepared to compete with any other races in this country on equal terms.
That is to us is a very reassuring term, and I think the Honourable Member for Ipoh will join with me in wel coming such a statement.

I am not, Mr Speaker, Sir, elevating my Honourable friend to the status of the Minister of the Crown—not yet.

(Laughter).

Mr Speaker, Sir, may I come now to the main topic of my speech?
His Majesty the Yang di-Pertuan Agong mentioned the establishment of Malay sia, and Malaysia has been bandied about not only in this House but also this House; and not only outside during the Elections but long before the Elections, a lot of abuse and names had been hurled all over the show.

Sir, in the recent elections, the Alliance Party, the P.A.P., and others as well, have resorted to a vicious campaign of hate, smears and abuse on the Malaysia issue.
We have been deli berately misrepresented and maligned against.

As such, we wish to reiterate our stand.

the Socialist Front towards 379 21 MAY 1964 380 that this should be on the colonial power, When the Malaysia Plan was first given public expression by the Tunku in May, 1961, we welcomed the idea of a closer association of the Bornean territories with our country, but we the warned basis of the freely expressed will of the people and not on the basis of a secret deal with i.e.
the Malaysian Great Britain.

At subse Socialist Conference held quently, we reiterated this stand on Malaysia and we have consistently maintained this stand since.

It must be remembered that on the question of the the formation of Malaysia, all Opposition Parties the previous Dewan Ra'ayat were unanimously against the manner in which Malaysia was being brought about.
in to ride too, Malaysia roughshod over However, the Alliance Government chose the Opposition on this important matter and, as a result, Malaysia created the very things it was designed to prevent.

As a result the friendship of two of our most impor tant neighbours, namely, the Philip pines and Indonesia; it brought about the confrontation by Indonesia and warmongers in the Alliance Party have led us to the very brink of war.

That our stand on Malaysia has been right is proved by the following.
lost The party leading political in Brunei, which was opposed to Malay sia, had won all the seats contested in the elections held there.

It decided that despite its total victory in the elections the it could not work held democratic process because of the colonial yoke, and hence it had no alternative but to break out into open rebellion against the colonial power.

there, The Sultan of Brunei too had refused to join Malaysia despite the blandishments of the Tunku and the British Government.
Large sections of the people of the Bornean States and Singapore are still against Malaysia, and large numbers are now under detention.

Our neighbouring countries, namely the Philippines and Indonesia, which had hitherto been friendly to us, have taken great offence at the way in which Malaysia has been established.
Even U. Thant, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, in his final conclusions on Malaysia has stated very clearly on page 2 that all this misunderstanding, confusion and even resentment would not have arisen, if the Alliance Government had not been over hasty.

He says in his report, in paragraph 3, all this "could have been avoided if the date could have been fixed after my conclusions had been reached and made known."
From this it can be seen that the manner in which Malaysia has been formed by the Alliance Government has led this country into a mess and all our war nings which were unheeded and ignored have proved true.

to today is pledged that our Party that is failure clearly on Now that Malaysia has been pushed through, let me state quite categori cally to finding a peaceful and constitutional that have solution the problems the been created.
We believe the trouble source of our to Alliance Government's establish Malaysia the basis of the right of self-determination of the people of Sarawak, Sabah and Singapore.

We call upon the Alliance Government to declare and support any measure to establish this.
Until we have demonstrated this conclusively in the eyes of the world, particularly the Afro-Asian nations, despite of the junketing of various people in the African continent, the Malaysia issue will remain unsettled and threaten the peace and development not only of our country but also of South-East Asia and, into indeed, may break out global warfare.

Towards a peaceful settlement of the Malaysia issue, we propose a five-point plan for peace, despite the sniggering that is going on.
I notice the Member for Pontian Selatan is not here; I wish he was here so that he can hear what my Party stand is; and despite his absence I wish he was here to listen to what I and my Party have to say.

The five-point plan for peace is: 1.

An immediate ceasefire.

(Laughter).

2.

Supervision of the ceasefire by either the United Nations or by contingents from the Afro-Asian nations.
381 21 MAY 1964 382 territories, whereas In this connection we note that the Secretary-General of the United Nations has refused to supervise the ceasefire in the Borneo the United Nations has played such a role in Korea, in Israel and, now, in Cyprus.
This is due no doubt to the fact that the the Alliance Government gave United Nations Secretary-General a slap on the face by announcing the date for the establishment of Malaysia even before the findings of the United Nations Mission to Borneo could be announced.

Thailand, in our view, because of its connection with SEATO, is not a happy choice for such a task, hence our proposal for the supervision of the ceasefire either by the United Nations or by contingents from the Afro-Asian nations.

3.
3.

Withdrawal of all foreign military troops both British and Indonesian but Malay sian (Laughter).

troops should remain behind.

Here, let me explain why we ask for the withdrawal of foreign military troops both British and Indonesian.

Both the United States of America and Great Britain have repeatedly stated that the Malaysian issue is an Asian one and must be solved by Asians.

None other the British Foreign Secretary, than Mr R. A. Butler, has repeated this in Manila lately.
But Mr R. A. Butler says this with his tongue in his cheek for it is the very presence of British bases in Malaysia and in particular of British troops in the Borneo territories that constitute the major problem in the Malaysia issue.

Indonesia regards the presence of the British bases and troops as a dagger pointed at the heart of Jakarta.

Hence her that her sovereignty will be threatened by the imperialists.
fear Next, both Australia and New Zealand have openly stated that their northern frontier lies in Malaya and as far as I know, Mr Speaker, Sir, there has been no protest by the Alliance Government over such statements.

This clearly shows that both these countries are interested in us Asians spilling our blood for their defence.
As we look around us we can see for ourselves whether such nations as India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon would tolerate the presence of bases much less of British troops on their soil.

And would Nasser, Ben Bella or Nkrumah countenance such an imperial yoke still?

May I warn the Alliance Government not to place too much reliance on our Defence Treaty with Great Britain.
I well remember the day, Mr Speaker, Sir, one Sunday morning in December, 1941, when I was at Changi Point and the Prince of Wales and Repulse sailed majestically by.
Then, as now, Great Britain was bent on showing her flag, but a few weeks later these two ships led by Vice-Admiral Sir Tom Philips sailed to their doom off Kuantan—and I need hardly remind the House how General Yamashita with only three divisions overran Malaya in a little over two months and sent more than 100,000 Commonwealth troops into captivity.
Hence the Socialist Front calls for the withdrawal of both British and Indonesian from Sabah and Sarawak and a pledge by the Alliance Government for a phased withdrawal of Great Britain from her bases in Malaya and Singapore.

troops touch with 4.

Release of all political detainees and the restoration of normal democratic life.

Mr Speaker, Sir, I do see there is a lot of sniggering around.

People who have not come the in infamous Internal Security Act may well afford to do so.
If I may say so, when the Internal Security Act was debated in the last House, if I remember rightly, not that I want to cast any aspersions on the Honourable Members on my right, they did not oppose the Internal Security Act.

Now I am sure they rue the day they did not do so, for they are not immune from the Internal Security Act.
Mr Speaker, Sir, I need hardly say that as long as the Alliance Government uses the infamous Internal Security Act to suppress the Opposition parties there can be no real democracy in this country.

A classic example of this abuse of the Internal Security Act was the detention of my election agent, Lee Kok Kuang, two weeks before polling day.

Now, even if the Alliance Government had enough evidence for such a detention, they could have detained him long before polling day—as the P.A.P.
did long before polling day, long before nomina tion day.

(Laughter) But no, the Govern ment must detain him on the eve of polling day, not only to intimidate me, but also to frighten the electorate into voting for the Alliance Party.

I am glad to say that neither the electorate nor I were cowed by their blatant intimidation, for the Socialist Front won in both the constituencies we contested there.

5.
5.

The holding of direct elections simul taneously in Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore to give the people the right of self determination.

When the British held elections in Sabah and Sarawak in early 1963, they saw to it, as in Malaya, that political power would remain in the hands of the Alliance Party.

There was virtually no election in Sabah, as there was hardly any opposition to the Alliance Party.

(Laughter) What opposition that existed was either bought up or intimidated into joining the Alliance.
Such tactics on the part of the Sabah Alliance were not surprising, as they learnt very fast from their masters in Kuala Lumpur.

We saw plenty of such tactics in the recent Malayan elections.

However, in Sarawak the Alliance Party there had to contend 383 21 MAY 1964 384 with the S.U.P.P., and to make it worse P.A.N.A.S.

fell out with the Alliance.


Chiefly because of the four tier system of indirect elections, which makes a mockery of representative Government and which can be manipulated by the Party in power, as can be seen from what I have to say, P.A.N.A.S.

left the Alliance and joined the S.U.P.P.

on this account.
on this account.

It is true to say that the Council Negri in Sarawak could not be manipu lated without the connivance of Enche' Jimat anak Intan, the sole independent winner of the Binatang Local Council, which composed of seven Alliance, seven S.U.P.P.

and one Independent members.

All the seven Alliance members, together with Enche' Jimat anak Intan, were brought to Malaya and bought over before they were returned to Sarawak and told to vote for the Alliance Party.
No wonder people generally regard politics as a very profitable occupation.

Besides, there was a whole heap of Independents, who have been bought over to enable the Alliance to manipulate and gain control of the Divisional Councils and the Council Negri, as the figures I will quote will show.

These figures, Mr Speaker, Sir, are culled from the Sarawak Gazette that I have here with me.

This Sarawak Gazette of August 31st, 1963, I must say that my figures are at variance with the official figures.
This is because the Sarawak Gazette got some of the candidates' Party affiliations all mixed up, and in parts the arithmetic was all wrong.

Be that as it may be, in the elections there the Alliance gained 137 seats with 42,389 votes; the S.U.P.P.

118 seats with 61,713 votes; the Independents 115 seats with 23,206 votes; and P.A.N.A.S.

59 seats with 24,701 votes.

Overall, the Alliance entered 273 candidates and received 68,814 votes, the S.U.P.P.
with 207 candidates got 73,843 votes, the Indepen dents with 405 candidates got 58,960 votes; and P.A.N.A.S.

had 110 candidates with 34,435 votes.

I regret I have to bore this House with these figures, but I shall put it in a nutshell when I reduce them to percentages.

It will be seen from these that of the valid votes cast, the Alliance had 29.2 per cent of the votes, the S.U.P.P.

31.3 per cent, Independents 25 per cent, and P.A.N.A.S.

14.6 per cent.
14.6 per cent.

But as you can see from the Sarawak delegation of Members of Parliament in this House, the S.U.P.P., despite the fact that they have 31 per cent of the valid votes cast, has only three representatives in this House.

This is because of the electoral college system devised by the British, and we can see how farcical they are as a measure of the expression of the will of the people.

We can also see how farcical it is that 6 out of the 18 Alliance M.Ps.
from Sarawak in this House were persons who had lost in the Local Council elections.

And one of them, the Honourable Enche' Abdul- Rahman bin Ya'kub, has been appointed the Assistant Minister of Justice, of all things.

Even the usually staid Straits Times was moved to protest over this appointment and in Sarawak there was a hue and cry against the appointment of these discredited politicians to the House of Representatives.

Even the Jesselton Daily Express described the method of choosing M.Ps.
from Sabah as an ugly method.

However, I see that direct elections for the States Assembly is going to take place in Sabah.

I stand to correction in this matter.

If that is really so, then at least the people have a chance to express their will freely by direct elections and not by manipulations.
No doubt, in this connection the Chief Minister of Sabah, who campaigned extensively in Malaya, has learned the tactics of intimidation, bribery and rigging of elections from his Alliance masters, who would be assisting him in this to the hilt.

Hence our call for direct elections simultaneously in Sabah and Sarawak in order to ascertain the will of the people.

Mr Speaker, Sir, as for Singapore, I need hardly remind the House that the P.A.P.
won only after practically all the organizers and prospective candidates of the main opposition party had been detained and 10 publications critical of the P.A.P.

had been banned.

Only nine days were allowed for the election campaign.

If I remember rightly, even the Honourable Member for Hilir Perak protested at this.

Still I fail to see how the P.A.P.

can have 12 representatives in this House.

In this connection .

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.. AN HONOURABLE MEMBER: Thirteen!


Dr Tan Chee Khoon: Mr Speaker, Sir, twelve from Singapore.

The other one is from the constituency of Bungsar, which is different from Singapore.

Mr Speaker, Sir, I think I need hardly teach the P.A.P.

a few lessons in geography (Laughter).

In this connection, I wrote a letter to the Press on this matter saying that if the P.A.P.

and Barisan Sosialis representation to this House should be proportionate to the seats gained in the September, 1963 elections the P.A.P.
do not strictly qualify for 11 seats in this House, let alone the 12 that they now have.

If the 15 seats in this House are to be divided among the 51 seats in the Singapore State Assembly, then 3.4 seats in the State Assembly qualify for one seat in this House.

Hence, for 11 seats in this House the P.A.P.

should have 37.4 in the Singapore State Assembly.

But we know that they have 37 seats in the Singapore State Assembly and 12 in this House.

Normally the P.A.P.
Normally the P.A.P.

Government is very quick to reply to any queries in the Press, but on this important matter that I wrote about the P.A.P.

were strangely silent.

seats AN HONOURABLE MEMBER: Not worth a reply!

385 21 MAY 1964 386 Dr Tan Chee Khoon: May be so.

Mr Speaker, Sir, I leave it to the House to decide.

I shall be grateful if they will explain to this House the basis of their computation for representation to this House.
Hence our call for direct elections this House and not in Singapore coming in by the back door.

to I trust that the Alliance Government will give serious consideration to our five points for peace and not reject them simply because they emanate from this side of the House.

in the Government foreign aggression Mr Speaker, Sir, may I come to the matter of confrontation that has been so much bandied about in this House.
With regard to the Indonesian con frontation, we state quite categorically that we will oppose any attempt to crush our country either from within or from without, or to settle the issue of Malaysia by force.

Let me reiterate that our loyalty and patriotism to our country is second to none and we will to rally behind resist any from whatever quarters.
Mr Speaker, Sir, if that categorical statement from me the Socialist as a representative of Front is not good this country enough, I do not know what the other parties would want us to say more on this matter.

We have no hesitation in condemning the attacks on our fisher men and the bombing incidents.

The Socialist Front in the last Parliament did ask for a greater measure of pro tection in the form of armed escorts or the provision of arms for our fisher the men.
We deplore and condemn oft-repeated to threats of Soekarno crush Malaysia by force and we do the Alliance Government hope will not commit any more provo cative act to aggravate an already very grave situation.

Mr. Speaker, Sir, if this categorical statement from me does not satisfy the Government in power, I do not know what they will ask further of us.

I repeat, we deplore and condemn threats of the oft-repeated Soekarno to crush Malaysia by force vice versa.
Our (Interruption), or quarrel with Indonesia cannot be solved by violence or by abusive language from both sides.

Such tactics will only damage the interests of the people of both our countries and also play the imperialists.

the hands of into that During the recent Malayan elections the Socialist Front has been labelled as pro-Indonesia and as the running dogs of Soekarno.

But what are the facts, Mr Speaker, Sir?


The Alliance Government in its White Paper on the eve of the elections linked our party with Ibrahim Yaccob and called us traitors because of that.

But who are the real traitors to this country?

Who has signed away our country to "big brother" Soekarno?

Let us pause and recollect.

Now that the people have been misled in the elections, let us not fool ourselves further.

the Tunku Ibrahim Yaccob of Defence?


Does Mr Speaker, Sir, we all know that in December, 1955 led a goodwill mission to Indonesia con sisting of himself, Tun Razak, Enche' Aziz Ishak and Mr Oscar Spencer.

In connection with that visit, Mr Speaker, Sir, may I ask who visited Enche' Ibrahim Yaccob in his house?

Who was chummy with him?

Was it not the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister Minister—who is not present today— care to deny this?
I know he would not, even if he were present today, be so foolish to do that, because, Mr Speaker, I have before me the proof of that visit; here it is, Mr Speaker, Sir, a photograph taken in the house of (a photograph is shown to the House) This photo Prime graph Minister Ibrahim Yaccob, and Members of this House can see.

This is not a false picture.

They can see this and we can produce for any number of Members of this House.

Here is Tun Razak seated beside Ibrahim Yaccob.


What was the Minister doing with such a character?

Would he care to explain?

Here I must confess that I am in the horns of dilemma.

Are we that to conclude, from this picture association the Minister's with that our Deputy Ibrahim Yaccob, of and Minister Prime Minister Defence is himself a traitor as set out in the Government White Paper?
the Deputy beside such pictures seated shows You know, Mr Speaker, Sir, that the Alliance leaders and those who ape them do not hesitate to call us names in their desperation.

But we 387 21 MAY 1964 388 are not so desperate as to lose our sence of balance.

We are willing to let this House and the country to be the judge on this matter.

We do not wish in calling people names.

indulge to Now, in connection with that visit too, what about the Prime Minister?
Would he deny that he met Ibrahim Yaccob at the Guest House in Indo nesia?

What was the purpose of that visit?

What were plotting?

the Tunku Furthermore, did not accompany Bung Karno and lavish praises on Indonesia and its leaders?

Did not the Tunku at Cherubon say that Soekarno was the greatest States man in Asia?

they Enche' Ibrahim Yaccob was then the doyen of Malay Nationalism and was assidously courted by the Alli ance leaders, but today he is the arch traitor of Malaysia.
How times have changed and how confusing to us ordinary mortals!

Now, let us examine the relations of the P.A.P.

Government vis-a-vis Indonesia.

What did the Honourable to Prime Minister of Singapore say the Indonesian Prime Minister when he went wooing in January, 1960?

I quote this from the Straits Times for the benefit of the this House and—since Members of he is not here—to refresh the memory of his colleagues.
The Prime Minister said: the Indonesians "We will not allow anything detrimental to the security of Indonesia to be committed in any territory over which we have control."

What concern, what assurance, what regard and what affection he had for Indonesia!

Does he still stand by those sentiments or has he changed his stand today?

Does he not remember declaring that the Indonesian struggle against independence had been a source of inspiration to the I quote Nationalists again : the Dutch for in Singapore?
"We watch," he said, "with even greater interest, your efforts to make up for past decades of stagnation under Dutch colonial exploitation."

Does not the Prime Minister of Singa pore describe Indonesia as "our great neighbour with whom we must re new our friendship"?

link and our The Prime Minister also felt this: "This visit which you have so kindly arranged for us should open the way for closer understanding and co-operation between Indonesia and Singapore."
"This is the basic friendship," said the Prime Minister, "which we have to wards our neighbours, the people of friendship Indonesia.

May strengthen and grow in mutual respect and mutual prosperity."

This was the love, these were the sentiments, this was the affection and the the Singapore Prime regard which Minister had for Indonesia then.

But today he sings a different tune and is almost a warmonger.
this was that On the 28th of June, 1963, Mr Speaker, Sir, Senator Che' Aishah Ghani led a three-member delegation to Jakarta—that was not very long ago!

The other members of the dele gation included Datin Sa'adia, wife of the Minister of Transport and Che' Som binti Abdullah.

Then Senator Che' Aishah Ghani stated: "Malayan women always look to Indonesia like a younger sister for guidance expecting guidance from her elder sister."
just to a She also stated that the Malayan dele gation had not gone foreign country but to meet their brothers and the delegation was sisters.

Finally the warm hospitality charmed by shown them by Mrs Subandrio.

The delegation also met President Soekarno of whom Senator Che' Aishah Ghani said, "I think he is a charming man."

to leader?
to leader?

But as Finally, Mr Speaker, Sir, may I refer to an Alliance Minister, who was so moved by his admiration for Soekarno that he named his son after the Indonesian the Malaysia issue hotted up, this Minister wisely and quietly changed the name of his son.
Unfortunately, Sir, the Minister I am referring to, is not in front of me now, but as you all know— this and is generally known country—the Minister in question is the Honourable Minister of Trans port who subsequently challenged the Indonesian leader to a fight—Siamese style, Queensbury rules, swords and in it 389 21 MAY 1964 390 sabres.

But before he had named his son after the Indonesian leader.
Mr Speaker, Sir, these four examples I quote will show that we who have been described as pro-Indonesia, we who have been called "running dogs" of Indonesia, are not so.

My colleagues and I have not been to Indonesia, my colleagues and I have not mentioned words favouring Indonesia.

None of us named our sons after Soekarno.

None of us has called Soekarno a charming man, nor have we called Indonesia our great neighbour.
I leave it to the House, Sir, and to decide who have been pro-Indonesia and who have been "running dogs" of Indonesia.

to this country I now come the question of to Maphilindo.

May I ask who has signed away this country to be dominated by Indonesia with its population of a hundred million?

What did the Prime Minister agree to at Manila?

What is the King's Maphilindo?

Why has Speech been silent on this?


Is it not true that the Alliance has betrayed this country and its people by agreeing to the establishment of Maphilindo, which is to be a confederation of Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia?

What will become of this country?

Does not this Agreement pave the way for the slow absorption by Indonesia?

What role will this country with 10 million people play with Indonesia which has 100 million people?

Will not Indonesia dominate us?

the people of to Indonesia.


Can We have been accused of paving the way for Indonesian domination, but the Alliance leaders have already sold this country the Alliance leaders claim to protect the interests of all this Indians, country, be Chinese or any others?

What else is the design behind Maphilindo?

Why was the King's Speech so silent on so important and vital a matter?

What is the view of the P.A.P?

There is some thing sinister about it.

That is why we must not have anything to do with it.
they Malays, These few examples, I hope, will suffice to show the House—and here once again I reiterate that we have been accused of being pro-Indonesia—who have been pro-Indonesia when it suited them; and now the Alliance and the P.A.P.

have the effrontery to accuse us of being pro-Indonesia and of being running dogs of Soekarno.

If anything, the Alliance Party and the P.A.P.


are guilty of sucking up—if I may use the word, Mr Speaker, Sir—to Soekarno when it suited their political conve nience and they are now indulging in talk and abuse.

Because the foolish Alliance feared an adverse vote on the Malaysia issue and confrontation, they have used the entire machinery of the State the electorate by making Indonesian domination as the bogey in the elections.
The mysterious plane flights, the parachute drops, the police road blocks and the bombing incidents all helped to create an atmos phere of fear, tension and war hysteria in this country.

to capture It is interesting to note that all these have ceased after the elections.
When my colleague the Member for Dato Kramat put forward the hypothesis that the bombing incidents could have been the work of the C.I.A., he was accused by the now Minister of Home Affairs of too many James Bond novels—not that I know whether he reads any of those novels; he does not read those novels, Mr Speaker, Sir.

(Laughter).

reading Enche' Lim Kean Siew: You are quite wrong!

Dr Tan Chee Khoon: But this hypo thesis is not too far fetched or absurd as the Honurable Minister would have us believe.
I have here an authoritative book on the C.I.A.

by Mr Andrew Tully—I do not know whether the P.A.P.

has read this book, or whether the Alliance front-benchers have read this book: this is one of the latest on the C.I.A.

It has a chapter on the overthrow of the Mossadeq Government by the C.I.A., and we all know that the C.I.A.

organised U-2 flights over Russia until Francis Gary Power was shot down by the Russians.

Now, if the C.I.A.
Now, if the C.I.A.

can overthrow a government and organise U-2 flights over Russia, surely the exploding of a few bombs in Singa pore would be child's play to them.

I am not here, Mr Speaker, Sir, postu lating that the C.I.A.

did that.

I merely 391 21 MAY 1964 392 say that that hypothesis is not too far fetched or absurd.

I am not postulating that.


To come back to the war hysteria created by the Alliance and the P.A.P., they succeeded in misleading certain sections of the voters that conquest by Indonesia was imminent and thereby have won those votes.

The Alliance victory is thus based on deception, using Indonesian opposition to Malay sia to confuse the voters, and those who voted for them will soon realise this and rue the day they did it.
Above all, they will realise the Socialist Front that has been infiltrated the by pro-Indonesian elements but Alliance.

it is not that However, confrontation has brought a great deal of misery to the people.

Many of our fishermen have lost their indirectly, lives, either directly or through to Malaysia.

Our businessmen have lost their trade and thousands of workers have lost their jobs and their livelihood.

Indonesian opposition The Socialist Front refuses to accept the P.A.P.
thesis that confrontation has come to stay and that we have to be prepared to live with it for many years to come.

This is a defeatist attitude and may well lead us to open warfare with Indonesia.

Hence in addition to the five points for peace that I have already enunciated, the Socialist Front calls on the Alliance Government to leave no stone unturned in the quest for peace.

This does not mean that the Socialist Front advocates abject sur render to Indonesia as we have been accused of.
There are groups in this country who are determined to prevent a peaceful settlement.

I am sure the Prime Minister is aware of these pres sure groups and will be wise to resist them.

The Socialist Front advocates a peaceful solution of the Malaysia dis pute but it must be a peace with honour and based on integrity of our the territory in Borneo.

Now, Mr Speaker, Sir, if that does not satisfy the Alliance Government, I do not know what will.
Hence, we once again call on the Alliance Government to take the quarrel from the jungle to the conference table and there to explore every avenue for a peaceful settlement.

Mr Speaker, Sir, may I now comment on the P.A.P.

and the Malayan elec tions.

In the recent Malayan elections the P.A.P.

made their political debut, and albeit it was a disastrous one, as has been commented on by the Ho nourable Member for Pontian Selatan.

Both the Alliance Party and the P.A.P.


in particular and others as well have called us communists, toeing the P.K.J.

line.

They pretend to see a communist behind every bush, in every nook and corner, under every bed and in every bathroom—and all these communists are from the Socialist Front.

However, the UMNO is worried over its infil tration by communist elements, and we all know that the P.A.P.

rose to power with the collaboration of the Malayan Communist Party.
And now both these Parties have the effrontery to accuse us of being communists.

Mr Speaker, Sir, may I now address two biblical quotations to the Alliance and the P.A.P.

: "He that is without sin, let him cast the first stone."

To the Prime Minister of Singapore, may I say this— "The beam that thou seest in thy neigh bour's eye thou seest not in thine own."

Let me lay low this communist bogey once and for all.
We are not a commu nist party; nor are we infiltrated by communists; and we do not toe the P.K.I, line; nor are we aligned to any foreign political party.

During the recent elections also the P.A.P.

was the most belligerent in its talk and most bellicose and abusive in its propaganda.

The P.A.P.

hopes to rise to power by hanging on to the sarong of the Tunku.

Jumping on the bandwaggon of the ruling party is an old and profitable pastime.
However, their record of double talk and double cross is so notorious that no amount of ingratiating talk can persuade even a party like the UMNO to co-operate with them.

The P.A.P.

sought to replace the M.C.A.

as the representative of the urban Chinese masses in the Alliance.

Despite the UMNO, the P.A.P.

unashamedly con tinued to woo the UMNO.

Here the House has just heard what the Honour able Member for Pontian Selatan has repeated rebuffs from 393 21 MAY 1964 394 said on this matter.
May I warn the P.A.P.

that if they tug too hard at the sarong of the Tunku, that sarong may well come off (Laughter) and so embar rass the Tunku and enrage the UMNO to boot.

During the recent elections too, the P.A.P., like a big circus, with great showmen and clowns, went on the Malayan circuit, and everywhere they went they drew huge crowds and caused big traffic jams.

Mr Speaker, Sir, in the Singapore elections of September, 1963, the M.C.A.

were quite properly des cribed as clowns.


In the Malayan elections their counterparts here were the P.A.P.

and the greatest showman and clown of them all, Mr Speaker, Sir, is here—the Prime Minister of Singa pore.

Here is a booklet printed by the P.A.P.

entitled: "Winds of Change".

Its proper caption, to me, should be: "The ill winds of change from south of the Causeway that does no one any good".

Here is a picture of the Prime Minister of Singapore addressing a huge rally in Suleiman Court.
Yes, you can see, Mr Speaker, Sir, this is a huge rally—truly the biggest rally that Kuala Lumpur has seen.

It was really a mammoth crowd that was entertained by that great clown.

Now, Suleiman Court happens to be in my constituency of Batu.

Here the P.A.P.

knocked their heads against a stone wall and their candidate lost his deposit.

Mr Speaker, Sir, here is another picture of the same master showman addressing another huge crowd—in Penang this time; and you can see for yourself it is in Penang .

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.. Enche' Lira Kean Siew (Dato Kra- mat): They lost all their deposits.

Dr Tan Chee Khoon: I do not need the help of my colleague, the Honour able Member for Dato Kramat, to teach me what has happened in Penang.

(Laughter).

Let us see what were the -results they achieved.

In the constituency of Tanjong my worthy colleague, Dr Lim Chong Eu, handed out a sound thrashing to the P.A.P.

candidate, Mr Tan Chong Bee, who polled 733 votes out of 28,493 votes cast.
In the State constituency of Kota Dr Lim, too, applied the coup de grace to the P.A.P.

candidate, Mr Lim Yew Hock—not our representative in Can berra, although the name sounds the same—who polled a mere 165 votes out of 9,129 votes cast.

Mr Speaker, Sir, in Johore and Penang the P.A.P.

lost their deposit in all their Federal and State seats they contested.

In all, the P.A.P.
In all, the P.A.P.

lost their deposits in six out of the eleven Federal seats they contested; and in the State elections they lost 9 deposits out of the 15 seats they contested.

The recent Malayan elections must have taught the P.A.P.

a salutary lesson, and no doubt the Prime Minister of Singapore is today a sadder but wiser man.

The P.A.P.

maintains that that to clarify Dr Lim Chong Eu (Tanjong): On a point of order.

I have been trying to catch your eye, Sir.


I really do not know under what Standing Rule and Order, so I beg your permission on a point of order.

I thank the Member for Batu for all his references to me, but I wish term "colleague" probably means that we are sitting on the same side of the House; and I ask on a point of order that as I have yet to speak for myself, I hope we shall have time to speak for ourselves on the issue that were brought up by the Honourable Member for Batu.
Probably there were Standing Orders under dissociation.

I would ask that references to our victory in Tan jong not be so associated with Batu.

the Mr Speaker: Can you mention the number of the Standing Order?

Dr Lim Chong Eu: Just on a point of order, Sir.

Mr Speaker: think you have I mentioned a Standing Order.

What is the number of the Standing Order?


Dr Lim Chong Eu: I merely want to dissociate myself, and to point out to the House, that the term "colleague" used by the Member for Batu probably refers to the fact that we are sitting on the same side of the House and the fact that the Member for Batu has so kindly referred to the election results 395 21 MAY 1964 396 in Tanjong in the last elections.
How ever, I feel it should be left to us to deal with it rather than to be taken up in a manner associated by the Member for Batu.

Dr Tan Chee Khoon: Mr Speaker, Sir, I hasten to reassure the Member for Tanjong that I have no intention of associating him with my views.

When I said "my colleague, Dr Lim Chong Eu"—I should have said "the Member for Tanjong"—I meant he and I are both doctors and both in that sense are colleagues.

(Laughter).

I did not mean that we are both political colleagues.
He and I are both doctors from the same profession, and it is usual for us on occasions like this to refer: "My colleague", or "My colleague from Larut Selatan".

That does not mean that we belong to the same political party or share the same political views.

(Laughter).

Mr Speaker, Sir, may I continue?

Mr Speaker: Yes, you may continue.

that whatever votes Dr Tan Chee Khoon: The P A P. maintains the Socialist Front gained in the previous elections were protest votes gained by the M.C.A.
The recent default from elections have proved that whatever votes we garnered in were solid leftwing votes.

Thus, at the Federal level in 1959 we had 13 per cent of the votes.

This year we gained 16 per cent of the votes cast.

They were not protest votes.

In Selangor, in 1959 we had 17.7 per cent of the votes cast; this year we gained 40 per cent of the votes cast.

If it is true to say that in the recent Malayan elections the P.A.P.
votes were protest votes, then how is it that the P.A.P, votes were so few?

Let us now examine once again the election results of the P.A.P.

in the recent Malayan elections.

Mr Speaker, Sir, I have here two typed sheets with me, but I shall not bother the House by reading the votes gained by them, such as, at Federal level 778 out of 28,500; 3,000 out of 20,000; or at State level 165 out of 9,000; and 359 out of 10,000.

I shall not bother the House with such details, Sir.
I think the Malays have a word malu, and this is the word which, I think, the P.A.P.

does not understand.

In Singapore, the Prime Minister of Singapore is the lord of all he surveys and his Ministers—or shall I call them his minions—are at his beck and call.

Now, that he has come the Malaysian Parliament, that giant is reduced to pint size by people on both sides of the House.

He can no longer be the Oracle of Delphi, as he seeks to prove to be in Singapore.
to May I now turn to some of the other matters that have been raised in the Gracious Speech of His Majesty.

May I refer to the Ministry of Health.

If I remember rightly, in the previous House the Minister of Finance once said that the Socialist Front talks the most when they are the most ignorant of the subject.

I can assure you, Mr Speaker, Sir, that the Member for Dato Kramat and I are not exactly ignoramuses and that in speaking on health I am, so to say, on home ground.
I regret that the Honour able Minister of Health is not here today to listen to what I have to say, but I do hope that what I have to say will be conveyed to him in due course, if not by word of mouth, through the Hansard.

Mr Speaker, Sir, it is regrettable that the Minister of Health in his very first press conference should put his wrong foot forward and antagonise the medical profession.
I refer to the press statement where he stated that the Government train Assistant Medical and would Health Officers.

When this matter was first mooted in the last House, I thought that the medical profession had made their views quite clear to the Ministry and that this matter would be dropped.

But now I see that the Honourable Minister of Health has chosen to raise this matter again.
I do hope sincerely that he has been mis-quoted on this matter, and I do hope that when the time the Government benchers to reply to my speech they will clarify this point, for it is a point that is of great importance, not only to the medical profession but to the health of this country.

comes for Mr Speaker, Sir, if I may say so, in that Ministry there is so much confusion that, to say the least, many medical officers are disillusioned.
They are dis illusioned because you see quite a 397 21 MAY 1964 398 number of young M.C.S.

officers holding the reigns in that Ministry and ordering venerable doctors who had qualified long before the war about as if they are peons.

This is strongly resented by the the medical medical profession and profession has asked that a medical man be put in charge of that Ministry instead of an M.C.S.

officer.
officer.

Mr Speaker, Sir, another aspect of the Ministry that has antagonised the profession has been the cholera outbreak in Malacca last year.

Through the inapt handling of the officers concerned there, the cholera outbreak was allowed to their spread; and instead of putting house right, we saw various statements from the various Ministers.

We had a statement from the Minister of Works, Posts and Telecommunications, reassur ing the country that there was no need to worry and that all was under control.
But meanwhile the cholera raged and spread north and south, and even across the Causeway.

Mr Speaker, Sir, if I may, I would like to quote here from a report of the Malayan Medical Asso ciation on this aspect.

As you know, during that cholera outbreak the Acting Minister of Health, again I repeat, instead of putting his own house in order, started maligning the private practitioners in this country.
Now, I would read the report from the Malayan Medical Association their fourth annual general meeting in 1964: "Your Council appointed a Committee to visit Malacca and investigate the cause of the outbreak of cholera in the State.

The Malayan Medical Association submitted a memoran dum on its findings.

The unsatisfactory state the sanitation, water of affairs supply and the fundamental cause of the outbreak."
sewerage disposal was tabled at regarding "The Ministry of Health appears to have no jurisdiction over the health services in like the Municipality of local authorities Malacca town.

It is also unfortunate that the Ministry of Health were unprepared at all levels to meet with an emergency outbreak of cholera of the proportions it reached.

It is wrong to apportion blame to any single officer when the system is at fault."
"It is the view of the Malayan Medical Association that the attacks made against the private medical practitioners during the epidemic were uncalled for.

We are glad to know that the Government Commission of Enquiry has remarked that a better relation ship should exist between the Ministry of Health and the private medical practitioners during an epidemic."
"It is interesting to note that the Commis sion has accepted most of the 14 recom mendations put up by the Malayan Medical Association to the Commission to prevent further outbreaks of major epidemics in Malaya."

in the Government done Mr Speaker, Sir, we all know that there is a shortage of medical per sonnel, particularly of doctors.

What has to solve this problem?


Yes, the Government try and has done through ASA to recruit some doctors from Manila until the matter of its unwise move Malaysia brought an abrupt end to that arrangement.

It is true that the Ministry of Health is searching high and low for doctors, but what has the Ministry of Health done?

I do know that it is very inept in its handling of doctors.
I do know of doctors, who have applied for jobs in the Ministry of Health, having to wait for two, three or four months before they are appointed.

Sir, if you ask any doctor to wait that length of time and expect him to wait for the Government to appoint him that length of time, can you wonder if the doctors choose to go elsewhere, even to go back to U.K. to practise rather than to wait for this the dilatory delay on Government.

the part of Here, Mr Speaker, Sir, I must pay a tribute where tribute is due.
I do know that the P.A.P.

Government has a different type of Ministry of Health, and I think the Minister is here today.

There I know that if a doctor sees the A.D.M.S.

(Health) today, in a very short time—even in a day or two— he is appointed to the service.

If that can be done South of the Causeway, I do not see why there should be such great delays in this country.
Instead of finding out the causes as to why doctors leave the hospitals, Mr Speaker, Sir, the Government and the Minister seek to blame the doctors for not thinking of the national in terests of this country and for seeking in private practice.
private fortunes Sir, I do know that times without number doctors, and I for one, have urged in air- the people who sit conditioned rooms in that Ministry to descend from their Olympian heights and go and meet the lowly houseman 399 21 MAY 1964 400 in his houseman quarters.
Unless you go and meet the lowly houseman and talk with him and find out what are his problems, can you wonder why he is all at sea, and does not know what to do, and as a result, he says, "To hell with the Government Service, I will go into private practice."?
Hence, I do hope that the people from the the various Medical Ministry and the various hos in Superintendents pitals in this country will go and meet and talk to the young doctors, and find out what their problems are and try and their problems and thereby you can retain the doctors in ignore them, if the service.

If you there is no you neglect them, then wonder in Malaya the doctors will all leave the Government Service.
solve that I in Mr Speaker, Sir, the question about if the previous House, remember rightly the former Member for Seberang Selatan once asked the shortage of drugs and materials in the Government hospitals.

Unfortunately for him, he was fobbed off by the previous Minister of Health.
Mr Spea ker, Sir, here I again say that there is a grave shortage, not only of drugs but also of materials, in most of the hospitals in this country, and I do hope that if the Honourable Minister of Health returns here this evening, he will stand up and answer what I have to say, because it is not that easy to fob me off, because I do know what is the truth.
If he will care to walk with me at the General Hospital, which has been described as a cow shed by the Alumini Association of the King Edward VII College of Medicine, he will know what are the terrible conditions that prevail in the the Capital of General Hospital of Malaysia.
He will know that Govern ment officers are asked to work with out tools, surgeons are asked to ope rate without cat guts, and they are asked to attend to fractures without plaster of Paris, and officers and hos pital assistants are asked to attend to dressings when there are no dressings, when the operation list is governed by the amount of dressings, the amount of spirit, that are present in the opera tion theatre at that time.
This to me, Mr Speaker, Sir, is a disgraceful state the of affairs, and I do not blame totally Ministry of Health it, for because that "Health" I do know comes very low down in the queue, the question of to when allocations the Ministry of Finance.

May I quote a Latin phrase, mens sana in corpore sano—a sound mind in a healthy body?

Mr Speaker, Sir, these words were true in Cicero's days as they are today.
it comes from it costs Mr Speaker, Sir, may I also ask the Ministry of Health whether it knows that is the Lady Templer Hospital living from hand to mouth.

Literally every year it is very worried as to what is going to happen in the next year.

I am told that that this Hospital has an allocation of only half a million dollars from the Government.
For an institution that caters for about three hundred patients and that pro vides specialised treatment at a cost of about $13 to $14 per bed per day, the Government pro when bably about $28 per bed per day, I think that it is dirt cheap and I think the Lady Templer Hospital is doing a wonderful and treatment not only deserves better from the Ministry of Health but also from the Ministry of Finance and that the medical officers there and all those connected with it should not go on begging for money, but should con centrate on what they have been engaged to do—that is, the care of the sick in that Hospital—and they should not be worried that the next year they to close down because might have there is no money in the kitty.
piece of work Mr Speaker, Sir, may I also raise the question of the Kinrara Hospital?

As you know, Sir, the Kinrara Hos pital is going to be vacated very soon by the British troops.

I do not know what plans, if any, the Ministry of Health has for that Hospital.

But may I humbly offer a suggestion?

We all is know the General Hospital filled to overflowing.
If you go to Ward 23, which is the acute surgical ward, or Ward 22, which is the gyne cological ward, you cannot have space to walk then as the patients lie down on the floor and transfusions have to that 401 21 MAY 1964 402 the other side, the medical staff there to prepare to be given by patients lying down on the floor.

If you go across the Orthopaedic Ward, you will see that the patients overflow into the corri the road dors—maybe right up to from sometimes.
If is a call the Ward Borneo for casualities from the Bornean territo ries, I know for a fact that a lot of just ills cases have been discharged like are casualities coming in.

Consequently, Sir, may I suggest the Kinrara Hospital should be converted into a sub-acute Hospital to take off the load from the General Hospital until such time as a new General Hospital is built?
that, because that that number, times without Here, Mr Speaker, Sir, may I come to this question of a new General Hospital for Kuala Lumpur.

We know that, the previous Ministers of Health have assured this House that there would be built a new General Hospital for Kuala Lumpur.

If I remember rightly, Dato' Ong Yoke Lin assured this House the hospital would be ready before the next general election, i.e.
1964—of course, he was talking the though through his hat—even medical profession advised him that it was physically impossible to build a hospital in that length of time.

We all know that it takes two to three years to plan a hospital, and perhaps two to three years to build a hos pital—that the Government.
And we all know that in the Univer sity of Malaya there they are building a hospital in a little less than three years, but as you know, Mr Speaker, Sir, in a the Government moves mysterious way that only the Govern ment can understand.

I do hope that tell us the Minister of Health can what are his plans for the new hos pital in Kuala Lumpur.

We have been told, times without number, that there would be a new hospital, and I have the to see yet launching pad.
taken off it being is by Mr Speaker, Sir, I now come to the question of labour.

We are told, Sir, that this Government now has a new dynamic approach to labour questions that employees and employers and to place the have been exhorted national interest before their own.

Mr Speaker, Sir, times without number, we have seen in recent months and days a rash of strikes, or threatened strikes that have broken out—a strike has been on and off, and you do not know whether it is on or off.
We want to know from the new Minister what to is this new dynamic approach that, labour relations.

We do know whenever a strike takes place, very often it is due to the fact that the union leaders are all sacked without "by your leave".

When a strike takes place, the employees are exhorted to place the national interest before their own, but there is not a word said about the employer.

I have yet to see any statement from the Ministry of Labour condemning unethical prac tices from the employers.
We have known, we have seen, and there is evidence still, of employers locking out workers.

Mr Speaker, Sir, if the Minister cares to go to the 3rd mile Gombak, he would see there a strike going on, and that has been going on for more than three months, and the cause of that strike was all because form the workers a union; and when they legitimately formed a union, the Committee was sacked en masse.
I want to know what has the Ministry of Labour done to persuade the employer to come to an the amicable in employees?

We do know almost all of is the these cases employees who have been victimised by the employers; and we do know that very often the employees run to our benevolent Prime Minister to find a solution to their problems.
But I must warn the workers of this country that that is a very dangerous practice, because today you may have a bene volent Prime Minister, tomorrow you may not have such a benevolent Prime Minister; and if you continue to run to the Prime Minister for all the solutions of your labour ills, then one day the workers of this country will rue the day they have established this practice.

there wanted settlement with that to it Mr Speaker, Sir, in between the M.P.I.E.A.
the dispute the and I 403 21 MAY 1964 404 the astonishing N.U.P.W.

we have statement advice by the Honourable the Prime Minister that the N.U.P.W.

should go to London to find a solution to their problems with the Rubber Growers' Association in London.

Mr Speaker, Sir, if that is not pure colo nialism, colonialism the Malays say, what is it?
It shows that this Government is still tied to the this apron strings of London and Government still takes orders from its masters tulin as Enche' Ibrahim bin Abdul Rahman: Mr Speaker, Sir, on a point of order— Standing Order 36 (2) says "Reference shall not be made to any matter which is sub judice in such a way as might in the opinion of the Chair prejudice the interests of parties thereto."

Sir, the matter of the M.PJ.E.A.

and N.U.P.W.

is under arbitration now.


Mr Speaker: (To Dr Tan Chee Khoori): Yes, he is referring to Stand ing Order 36 (2).

The matter is sub judice because it is still under dis cussion.

Please proceed.

Dr Tan Chee Khoon: Mr Speaker, Sir, that is not a court proceeding, and as such I do not think it is sub judice.

That is merely a mediation.

We can see the employees and employers still spouting their pieces both inside and outside the Press—and I do not see why I should be reminded of that.
Mr Speaker, Sir, I shall not continue, not the Honourable Member, who interrupted me, but that I merely wanted to make my point that this Government is still being tied on to the apron strings in London.

in deference to Mr Speaker, Sir, may I now come to the Ministry of Education?

Just now you have heard me referring to the recognition of the Nanyang Uni versity degrees.

I wish to remind this House this country are very perturbed over a the section of University of Malaya.
to Section 47, and may I, Sir, with your permission, read out Section 47— the Constitution of refer the graduates of that I "A student shall not be admitted to the University to a course of study for a degree unless he (hereinafter in this Part referred to as a 'matriculated student') shall have satisfied such requirements as may be prescribed by Act: provided that except with the agreement of the Minister, students who have been awarded Federal and State scholarships or other similar financial assistance from public funds for University degree courses, shall not be refused admission if they satisfy such requirements."
Mr Speaker, Sir, I think I am right in saying that a large body of aca the demic people, and graduates of the University of Malaya, are perturbed over this section that gives the Minister of Education the to right the accept a Government, be it the State or Federal Government; and I believe I am right that the University of Malaya Gra duates' ' Society has already made representation to the Government on this matter.
the University student chosen by to compel certainly May I also, Mr Speaker, Sir, say that because of certain events in the University of Singapore, where the Vice-Chancellor, in the words of a distinguished and academic man, has been hounded out of the University.

That has caused the Guild of the Graduates of the University of Malaya to hold a protest meeting on this matter and to send their views to the Council of the University of Malaya and through it to the Government.
I do hope that the present Minister of Education will give us an assurance that the autonomy of their University shall not be tampered with.

Mr Speaker, Sir, I shall now dwell for a little while on the Ministry of Welfare, and here, Mr Speaker, Sir, may I say that I welcome the forma tion of the Ministry of Welfare, and may I have your permission to speak in the National Language.
di-kawasan Tuan Yang di-Pertua, dalam pilehan raya yang lalu saya ada melawat Rumah Pertolongan di-antara kam- pong2 Melayu saya.

Di-beberapa keluarga di-kampong itu saya ada menengok beberapa kanak2 yang tidak bersekolah.

Apabila saya bertanya: Enche' mengapa anak kamu tidak pergi sekolah?

Beliau men- jawab, Tuan Doktor, apa kata awak?

Macham mana anak saya boleh pergi lapar, saya ka-sekolah, perut saya 405 21 MAY 1964 406 tidak ada wang, tengok perut saya ke- nyang-kah?
Dan bagaimana saya boleh menchari chukup wang untok membeli buku2.

Tuan Yang di-Pertua, saya berharap Menteri Kebajikan 'Am boleh menengok perkara yang saya bawa ini dan saya berharap Menteri itu boleh menolong orang yang miskin dan orang yang tidak ada wang untok membeli buku2 bagi anak2 mereka.

Tuan Yang di-Pertua, kami dari Socialist Front berasa sangat dukachita sebab Titah Uchapan Duli Yang Maha Mulia Seri Paduka Baginda tidak menyentoh tentang Bulan Bahasa Ke- bangsaan yang akan datang.
Tuan Yang di-Pertua, kalau Kerajaan sendiri tidak menyentoh perkara ini dalam Titah Uchapan, bagaimana kami boleh ra'ayat belajar Bahasa memanggil Kebangsaan.

Tuan Yang di-Pertua, saya hendak memberitahu kapada Ahli2 Yang Ber- hormat, pada tahun yang lalu saya ada menjemput Menteri Muda di-hari menyampaikan hadiah di-sekolah jenis kebangsaan rendah yang saya menjadi pengerusi lembaga-nya.
Apabila guru besar telah memberi uchapan dalam Bahasa Kebangsaan dan bahasa itu memberi uchapan-nya di-dalam bahasa Inggeris sahaja.

Kalau Menteri Kera jaan tidak membacha Bahasa Kebang saan bagaimana kami boleh memang gil ra'ayat belajar Bahasa Kebang saan?

Inggeris, Menteri itu dan saya sekarang Tuan Yang di-Pertua.

Kerajaan Perikatan kerana kemenangan-nya yang gilang-gemilang mungkin tidak mahu mendengar shor2 dari kami ini.
Satu daripada jawapan yang selalu di-dengar dari uchapan Menteri2 Kerajaan Peri katan dalam Parlimen yang lalu ia-lah yang pemerentah ada-lah kami.

Kalau partai kamu yang me merentah, kamu boleh buat apa2 yang kamu fikir baik.

Ada-lah menjadi satu jawapan yang pertanyaan.

apa-kah bagini boleh menggalakkan pertum- bohan Demokerasi Berparlimen dengan sihat dalam negara kita ini?
Sunggoh pun Socialist Front mempunya'i dua orang wakil sahaja dalam Dewan yang berhormat ini, saya suka mengingatkan bahawa kami mewakili 16 peratus pengundi2 negeri ini dan beberapa banyak lagi pendudok2 yang bertim- bang rasa dengan kami.

Dari itu, Tuan Yang di-Pertua, saya anjorkan kapada Kerajaan menimbang- kan pendapat kami memandang ba hawa anjoran kami itu ada-lah datang daripada sa-bahagian ra'ayat yang ta'at setia-nya tidak kurang daripada peng undi2 yang mengundi Parti Perikatan.
Kita mempunya'i satu masaalah yang besar—masaalah konfrantasi di-hada- pan kita.

Satu perpaduan ra'ayat ada-lah perlu menghadapi masaalah ini.

Mari-lah kita berpedomankan lama: yang berat sama peribahasa di-pukul (pikul) (Ketawa) yang rengan sama di-jenjeng dalam menghadapi masaalah ini.

Sa-kian-lah sahaja, Tuan Yang di- sa-kira-nya uchapan Pertua, kalau saya saya minta ma'af dan sa-kali lagi saya menguchapkan terima kaseh (Tepok).
tidak sedap atau kasar Mr Speaker: Honourable Members, I wish to remind you that the debate on His Majesty's Address must be concluded before the end of tomorrow's sitting.

In view of this, and also in view of the fact that only a few Members have spoken so far, I wish to appeal to Members not to indulge in irrele vancy or that other Members may have a chance to speak on the Royal Address.
repetition so Tuan Haji Rahmat bin Haji Daud (Johor Bharu Barat): Yang Berhormat Tuan Speaker, saya mengambil peluang ini untok melafadzkan sa-tinggi2 terima kaseh di-atas Titah Uchapan Duli Yang Maha Mulia Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong dalam Isti'adat Pembukaan Parlimen pada hari Selasa yang lalu.
Sa-bagai Wakil Ra'ayat yang datang dari Johor Bahru Barat dan sa-orang anggota parti yang memerentah saya sunggoh berasa megah di-atas kejayaan pemerentahan Parti Perikatan di-dalam masa 7 tahun, dan pula saya yakin bahawa dalam 5 tahun yang akan datang kemajuan dan pembangunan negara dalam sa-genap lapangan akan di-lipatgandakan negara Malaysia kita ini merupakan sa-buah sa-hingga 407 21 MAY 1964 408 negara yang terkemuka di-dunia sa- belah sini.
sahaja yang rengkas, maka ada Yang Berhormat Tuan Speaker, oleh kerana telah di-uchapkan oleh Tuan Speaker ia-itu tiap2 Ahli Yang Berhormat di-minta beruchap dengan sa-berapa satu perkara saya hendak uchapkan di-sini ia-itu bahagian Ke- selamatan Dalam Negeri.

Terlebeh ingin menyatakan ke- dahulu, saya banggaan saya kerana kita mempunyai Angkatan Bersenjata Pasokan Polis yang handal lagi kebal.
Mereka telah menunjokkan kesanggupan luar biar pun mempertahankan negara meng- hadapi baik dalam usaha mempertahankan pen- cherobohan mahu pun dalam usaha menyekat penyeludupan dan usaha berlaku mengelakkan di-dalam negara kita.

penghianatan konfrantasi Soekarno keadaan-nya tanah ayer kita bagitu Ra'ayat negara kita ini juga merasa megah di-atas lantekan sa-orang bumi putera mengetuai angkatan bersenjata ini.
Tetapi dalam tidak dengan Pasokan Polis yang kita tahu hingga hari ini ia-itu bagaimana yang telah di-terangkan dalam uchapan Duli Yang Maha Mulia Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong ia-itu maseh juga di-sandang oleh sa-orang pegawai expatriate dan bukan bumi putera Malaysia.

Pada hal bumi putera yang layak untok menyandang jawatan itu tidak kurang dari mereka.

Kuasa yang ada di-tangan itu bagitu besar berhubong dengan me- pertukaran naikkan pegawai2 di-atas pangkat A.S.P.
Kita tahu 7 tahun lama-nya kita merdeka tetapi maseh juga menggunakan pega wai dagang.

Untok menjaga maruah dan keperibadian kita, saya harap kira-nya Kerajaan akan dapat segera bertindak dengan tegas Malaysiani- zesankan semua jawatan2 yang penting dalam puchok pemimpin negara ini.

Dan saya sokong penoh atas uchapan terima kaseh kapada ka-bawah Duli Yang Maha Mulia Seri Paduka Bagin da Yang di-Pertuan Agong, terima kaseh.
Inspector-General pangkat dan Enche' Lee Kuan Yew (Singapore): Mr Speaker, Sir, with the ceremonial opening of this Second Parliament of Malaysia, the curtain rises on a new chapter in our history.

The stage is set for the next five years, and yesterday and this morning we had a prelude of interesting and sometimes the many anxious moments, which we will spend in this Chamber in the next five years.

Up till now the struggle has been to establish Malaysia.
From May, 1961. when the Prime Minister first mooted the formation of Malaysia, until the 25th of April this year, the communists and other groups, who for diverse reasons went along with them in their anti-Malaysia campaign, could pretend that the people did not want it, that in fact Malaysia was a neo-colonialist plot, foisted upon the people by a stooge Government.
Sir, whatever else the votes on the morning of the 26th of April proved, or did not prove, it nailed for ever the lie that Malaysia did not enjoy the support of the people.

One by one, first Sabah, Sarawak and the eleven old Singapore and now States of Malaya have endorsed the new nation.
But, although the forma tion of Malaysia was I think, it is also true to say that its success is not inevitable, and upon us, both in Government and in Opposition, upon the lines of policy that we will enunciate in this Chamber will depend the survival or the destruction of this new nation.

inevitable, to vicious destroy Sir, it gives me great satisfaction to see amongst our midst so many old friends and faces of people, who stuck their necks out for Malaysia before it succeeded.
It gives me equal satisfac tion to see absent from these benches so many of the false prophets, who did their it best (Applause)—we shall not miss them.

But I think I should be forgiven, if I remind the balance of forces outside this Chamber, on the ground, is not as reassuring as in the deployment of representatives this Chamber.

We would do well to remember, Mr Speaker, Sir, that 1969 will present us with a very different set of problems in very different circumstances.
Here, we have only two representatives from the Socialist Front, the Barisan Sosialis, three that perhaps the House from 409 21 MAY 1964 410 and amongst the failure of to have a separate the mass base and leader spoke sepa Singapore—their rately yesterday, I do not know if in anticipation of their leaders in Kuala Lumpur, they would wish line—and three from the Sarawak United People's Party.

Eight do not constitute a menace, the even P.M.I.P.

benches there has been some reduction in their ranks.
But to those anxiously of us, who have been studying the election results in Malaya, comparing them with what it was in Singapore, trying to fathom what it meant in Sabah and Sarawak, it leaves us with a deep anxiety that all that is needed is a shift, between 10 to 15 per cent, of in a fragmentised Chamber, no coherent authority would be possible.
So, I hope I will be forgiven, if I sound this note of caution in the midst of the renewed self-confidence and even a touch of euphoria, which is forgivable, on the Government side.
The lease of life that they have been given for another five years could so very easily be frittered away if they interpret these results as a blanket approval for carrying on in the same old way—malpractices, ineffi ciency, ineptitude; and we have had in only two days listened to some very unhappy anecdotes of what took place in these elections.
I do not wish, Mr Speaker, Sir, to say that I believe or disbelieve what has been said, but what I do say is that these things should never be allowed to be said unchal lenged, or uninvestigated.

If we want the democratic system to survive, then we must be prepared to run it openly and manifestly beyond reproach.
the Sir, some time within the next five years, immediate pressures of Indonesian confrontation will slacken and people's minds will begin to dwell once again on the economic and social conditions.

And if life is not made better for the mass of the people, the jnandate the broader canvass of Malaysia may not be so easy to come by.
time against the next Mr Speaker, Sir, we share these seats on the Opposition benches with some very curious gentlemen from some very curious parties, and the differences between us and some of those on my it in than from between us they do not that divides us the right are more abiding those and differences this Chamber.

The opposite me the chasm Socialist Sosialis, Front, Barisan SUPP, as parties and not as indivi duals—because really represent what their Parties mean—is unbridgeable.
Between us is not political rivalry, it is a matter of life the and death.

Similarly, whatever bonhomie in this Chamber, I do not think very many, even on my right, can seek solace and consolation if ever the Members from Kelantan were to assume office in this House.
So, what ever the party rivalries between the Government benches and us, let us never into insignificance when we face a common threat from the communists as repre sented in their open front organisa tions, like the Socialist Front, Barisan Sosialis and the SUPP, or when we face religious racism in the PMIP.

The fundamental distinction between us and the two other Opposition parties, we have yet to find our water-level with the People's Progressive Party and the United Democratic Party .

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forget fade they that Enche' Lim Kean Siew (Dato Kra- mat): Sir, on a point of clarification .

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Enche' Lee Kuan Yew: Surely.

Enche' Lim Kean Siew: Sir, is the Honourable Prime Minister sitting on the wrong side of the House?

not lead the Government in full agreement with Enche' Lee Kuan Yew: Sir, the geography of this Chamber (Laughter) can itself be a subject for an interesting essay on political shades in this House.
May L for the enlightenment of Mem bers on this side of the House, say that we are the that we views of should the Opposition benches.

There are various other fac tors besides just taking the lead in this Chamber.

The future of this country has graver issues at stake.

The diffe rence between them and us is that we want Malaysia to succeed, even if it reflects credit on the Prime Minister and his colleagues.
We want the democratic system to endure, even if it means that for many years we shall be denied an opportunity of office.

We are 411 21 MAY 1964 412 and a loyal opposition—loyal to Malaysia.
Our criticism will, therefore, be directed to pointing out the dangers of policies, which we consider may lead to failure, and to checking the lapses of political administrators—lapses leaders from high standards of public conduct which could lead to a breakdown of public confidence and a collapse of the whole system of democratic Govern ment.

But a loyal Opposition does not mean a subservient Opposition and criticisms, however unwelcome, will have to be made seriously and in good faith.
We hope that they will be taken equally seriously and in good faith.

On all external matters, confrontation, foreign policy, questions of national integrity and survival, there is no difference in either objectives or attitudes between us and the Govern ment.

We may differ on what is the most effective way of securing our integrity and survival, but we are at one in warning to achieve that goal.
Even on domestic issues there is a large measure of common agreement on the tolerant approach to cultural, racial and linguistic problems.

Our differences will arise over questions of the economic and social policies in domestic scene, issues of taxation that provide for the amenities of a modern civilised society—education, housing, health, welfare and so on—and how these are to be paid for.
How acute these conflicts will be, will depend upon how the Minister of Finance and his colleagues are able to bring them selves to view the world—not from the standpoint of the rubber estate owners, or the stock holders of companies, but to view it also from the rubber tappers and the workers in the companies that produce profits for the stockholders and the shareholders.

We consider it our duty to open up the windows for the "winds of change".
the point of view of the shareholders and We are unrepentant, Mr Speaker, Sir.

We believe that it is easier to make the transition from a colonial society into a modern democratic State, if we consciously strive to meet our pro blems before we have to react acutely to them, and we are not pessimistic.

Criticism and example can set off a It is that inevitable in Malaya.

Low change for the better.


Free secondary education in Singapore has triggered off the proposal for nine years' primary education cost housing in Singapore has triggered off, stimulated, the creation of a Ministry for Local Government and Housing.

The process of change is relentless.

There is no going back.

They have accepted our premises of a more free and a more equal society.

The conse quences will be drawn with relentless consistency at every meeting in this Chamber.
the newly independent countries of Asia and Africa must move towards a more egalitarian society.

To obtain freedom, political leaders stimulate the minds of their people to eradicate the injustices of a colonial society.

Having inspired life in an these hopes for a better independent country of their own, the process has been set, and cannot be checked by their leaders, who set it into motion.

This is a tide of history.


Men's minds and energies having been mobilised to get rid of the inequalities of an old order, cannot be suddenly unscrambled to accept the status quo which carries the inequalities of the old, and we deem it our duty to ease the way forward towards a more just and equal society.

Mr Speaker: Order, order.

The time is this is now one o'clock.

The sitting suspended afternoon.

till half-past four Sitting suspended at 1.00 p.m.


Sitting resumed at 4.30 p.m. (Mr Speaker in the Chair) EXEMPTED BUSINESS (Motion) The Minister of Commerce and In dustry (Dr Lim Swee Aun): Mr Speaker, Sir, I beg to move, That notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order 12, this House shall not adjourn today until 7.30 p.m.

The Minister of Welfare Services (Tuan Haji Abdul Hamid Khan bin Haji Sakhawat Ali Khan): Tuan Yang di-Pertua, saya menyokong.

413 21 MAY 1964 414 Question put, and agreed to.


Resolved, That notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order 12, this House shall not adjourn today until 7.30 p.m.

THE YANG DI-PERTUAN AGONG'S SPEECH Address of Thanks Debate resumed.

Enche' Lee Kuan Yew: Mr Speaker, Sir, before the adjournment for lunch, I referred to the two periods with regard to Malaysia—the first is the creation, now comes the time for its consolidation.
I have said that whilst the formation of Malaysia was inevita ble, we cannot assume that its success is also fact, some extremely delicate and sensitive issues will always pose a problem to our inte gration and development as a cohesive nation, and it does no harm to pose the problems frankly in this Chamber in order that we can seek consciously to intelligent find solutions.

inevitable.
inevitable.

rational and In is to aspects—first, threatens not only from its continued Malaysia has to be consolidated in outside two threats survival, second, by consolidating the various groups within Malaysia so long as Indonesian confrontation there, threatening all and sundry within Malaysia, threatening as much Sabah and Sarawak as Singapore and the old eleven States of the peninsula.

So, all the fourteen States will come together.


So, too, as long as Indonesian con frontation the Malays, the Dayaks, the Dusuns, the Muruts and the others but also the Chinese, the Indians, the Eurasians, the Ceylonese and others, so these communal barriers are forgotten as they rally to defend a common inte rest.

But, there will come a time probably within the next five years, when this external pressure will slac ken.
I do not say that Indonesian ambition their to absorb us Nusantara will ever disappear, but from time to time they must slacken off their confrontation for their own internal reasons.

Before this happens, we would do well to achieve our into the the leaders of the consolidation first as between States within Malaysia, second, as between communities within Malaysia.
As long as the three new States of Sabah, Sarawak and Singa pore think and feel as part of one nation, part of one federation, there is no danger of the centrifugal process of the outer periphery of States breaking away.

But this is a two-way the process, and Central Government set the pace and the tone of the process of coming together as a Federation.

I have had it once analysed by a very distin the guished statesman of one of Commonwealth nations.
It goes in one of two ways, either centrifugally in which case it goes further and further apart as in the Southern States of the United States in the old Confederation and then had to be brought back together by force, or it comes together on its own—centripetal, closer and closer together.

the Sir, the State leaders of Governments can only respond to the pace set by the Central Government.
What I am saying is, if they set the tone in this two-way process of give- and-take between what are sometimes competing interests between the State and the centre, then they make the pace that much quicker.

Within these five years we must strive to make people in the three new States regard themselves and be regarded by the eleven old ones as part and parcel of one nation and as closely integrated as the old eleven.
Then, and only then, will we begin to talk, think, and feel in the same language as Malaysians, and in turn we will imbue our people with the same values and objectives.

But bringing the States together is a to somewhat less difficult objective achieve than getting the various com munities to forget their distinctiveness— their cultural, linguistic, and their racial distinctiveness.
With Malaysia some new communities have joined us—the Dayaks, the Muruts, the Ibans, the Kadazans, the Melanaus and a host of other indi genous people in Borneo.

the Dusuns, Enche' Lim Kean Siew: {Interpola tion).

415 21 MAY 1964 416 thinks should Enche' Lee Kuan Yew: Mr Speaker, Sir, I am grateful to my Honourable friend from Dato Kramat.

I do hope that if he has anything upon which be he the House to enlightened, he will not hesitate rise.

I will always oblige him.


But he should at least extend me the civility of allowing me to make my speech, (Laughter) either with interruptions, in which case I will yield; or with out interruption, in which case I may be given a hearing.

to him Enche' Lee Kuan Yew: I Enche' Lim Kean Siew: Mr Speaker, the Prime Sir, may I know what to Minister of Singapore is referring and what did I say that he objects to?

think whilst I am not his leader—his leader has already objected telling how Penang was won.
If he really felt that he would like to enumerate in indigenous peoples all the Borneo instead of territories mumbling away about the Kalabits and so on, I think he should say so.

Enche' Lim Kean Siew: (Rises).

Mr Speaker: Sit down.

Is it on a point of order or on a point of clari fication?

the other for Batu Enche' Lim Kean Siew: On a point of clarification, Sir.

I think the Hon ourable Member took objection to my pointing out that the PAP lost all its deposits in Penang.
Of course, he wanted to save the face of the PAP, but that is another matter.

I was trying to point out that there the Kalabits are other peoples and Kadayans, which he had missed out—the Punans also—because he had referred to somebody from Cambridge, or somebody outstanding from abroad, who had taught him about centrifugal and centripetal forces.

So, I thought I might help.

(Laughter).


like Enche' Lee Kuan Yew: I am grate ful for the assistance of the Honour able Member for Dato Kramat, but I do hope it will be made audible and vocal for everybody, because a running commentary to assist the proceedings in this House.

is hardly one likely Sir, to succeed in the long run, we must make sense out of Malaysia.

(Enche' Lim Kean Siew—Interpolation) (Laughter) He was saying "dollars".

I thought, Mr Speaker, Sir, the House might like to know.
Enche' Lim Kean Siew: (Rises).

Mr Speaker: Do not interrupt him.

(To Enche' Lee Kuan Yew) Please proceed.

on pressures Enche' Lee Kuan Yew: We must build a sense of national identity and unless the new Federation becomes a living unit, we will always have to depend to external generate a sense of unity.
Although found the last eight months have Indonesian a as acting pressures catalyst this unity, we must remember that we cannot go on forever to play this game of communal checks and balances with impunity, for unless the new values are generation now growing up in our schools, our long-term chance of sur vival are not very high.
instilled into for spring inspirations racial, cultural We are trying, Mr Speaker, Sir, to forge a nation out of the three major and groups whose linguistic from three larger countries around us.
The Malays cannot be unaware of Indo nesia and what is happening there; the Chinese are conscious of China and her growing power; and the Indians are proud of their ancient civilisation, which is the largest living democracy in the world, striving to make its way into the industrial age by consent and not by coercion.
themselves communities three major into a nation, At the time when the three main springs, the cultural mainsprings, of the in Malaysia have to come together and forge the themselves under three sources are going a renaissance, tending to pull loyalties, and sentiments, away from each other.

Today, fortunately, Malay sia offers a better life to all of us than either Indonesia, China or India can offer her own people.
So, whatever the racial, cultural and linguistic loyalties, Malaysia the material loyalties of all her peoples, because it offers a better life.

But how long this pre-eminent shall we occupy in Asia?

No one can tell.

position commands 417 21 MAY 1964 418 it in life and in Asia.
But is only cupboard Let us hope that we will always be able to sustain our rate of economic growth and maintain our supremacy in standards of the possibility of one, or two, or even all three, of these mainsprings of our culture, our various cultures, ultimately outstripping us in material success must be one which we must take into consideration in our prognosis of the future.
If love which holds the loyalty of our people to Malaysia, a loyalty dependent only on material well-being, then the ability to stick together as a people and be a nation will be slowly undermined.
for example, a strong coherent If, leadership were to emerge in Indo nesia and a few years later, through disciplined, dedicated effective administration, restore order out of an increase production chaos, economy which is going down, then the consequences upon all of us in Malaysia will be very grave, unless before then we have inculcated new values in our Malay population.

At present no one feels proud of Indo nesia and many, even of Indonesian descent, are secretly ashamed of it.
But we shall be in very grave trouble if a new ruling elite emerges in Indo nesia that can make the Malay people here as proud of Indonesia as some Chinese were of China not so very long ago when it looked like succeed trials and ing tribulations of the Great Leap.
And if all Indonesia, India—provide a better China and life for than we can then we in Malaysia, for shall be lost, unless before then we have created that national spirit and identity, which can withstand the blandishments of identification with higher cultures and civilisations, which may by then be also able to provide higher standards of life.
three countries— rapidly before their people those the No one really knows how much time we have got, for no one can see the pace and direction in which Indonesia will progress, nor are we certain that the political prophets are right when they take another forty to fifty years to catch up with the modern industrial giants that China may say the of America and Russia, or how long it will be before India emerges as a modern industrial nation.
But we must ensure before that time, whenever it may be, that we have welded a nation out of three component com munities and we have cut off all sentimental, cultural or chauvinistic ties with the mainsprings of our three communities.

Only in this way is there any hope of guaranteeing our survival as a separate and coherent nation in South-East Asia.
If we do not set out to do these things to integrate our communities and imbue them with a sense of belonging to Malaysia and to each other, then all we shall be doing would be living on borrowed time day by day, year by year, from hand to mouth, to disintegrate as a nation the moment the pulls from outside— pulls of culture, language and senti ment—become stronger than the pulls together inside—pulls which today are largely of a material nature.
to this morning interest I Mr Speaker, Sir, listened with some the Member for Pontian Selatan and to the speech made by the Member for Batu.

The Member for Pontian Selatan made play of the distinction between rural and urban.
The point he made was that, in fact, what I meant was Malay for rural and Chinese for urban, that therefore when I said the urban popu lation was more sophisticated than the rural, I meant the Chinese were more sophisticated than the Malays: there fore, it was an insult on the Malays.
I am reducing it, Mr Speaker, Sir, crudely to the point, because if we as representatives of the people are un able to talk in blunt terms to each other, it is unlikely that we will ever get to the problems, which we understand must face in a multi-racial, multi cultural community.

Sir, if in fact I meant that, then of course either 1 am out to create racial trouble or I am a fool, or both.
Sir, it is true that the the majority of in urban areas are Chinese and the majority of the population in the rural areas are Malays.

But when I say that the people in the towns are more than the people in the sophisticated the population the different communities 419 21 MAY 1964 420 true validity, the world, without country, I am stating a proposition of in many general countries, in many societies, through· out regard to the racial composition of town or country.

Let us take Britain and Australia.


The towns regularly return parties of the left-the British Labour Party and the Australian Labour Party draw their support from the working classes towns.

The British in the Australian Conservative Party, Liberal and Country Party and other Conservative Parties draw their support from the country people, people who by their mode of life are more con servative in their approach.
So it is also in Japan, where the ruling right wing party draws its sustenance from the country.

the Let us take this election results.

One of the interesting facets of this election results is that the smaller the town and the nearer it is to a rural area, the higher the percentage of non the M.C.A.

candidates Malay votes obtained: conversely, the bigger the town and the more sophisticated, the smaller the percentage of non-Malay votes the M.C.A.

candidates obtained.


Our calculations based on the election results and on 1lhe electoral registers, on a breakdown of Malay and non Malay voters, show that in places like Kuala Lumpur, Seremban, Ipoh Penang and even Malacca.

the non Malay votes that went to the M.C.A.

ranged between 10 per cent at its lowest point and 20 per cent at its highest.

But in the smaller towns like Taiping.


they were able to get as much as 40 per cent, ranging up to 45 to 50 J)er cent of Chinese votes, illustrating the general principle that the more urbanised the population.

the more politically sophisticated it becomes, its support for parties of the right.
As a corollary, the Malay urbanised the more voters were, for solidly less UMNO they were, although unfortu nately for diverse reasons they were solid enough even in the towns so that a difference of 10, 15 or 20 per cent of the non· Malay votes were enough to ensure the election of M.C.A.

candidates.

Be that last elections these less the the in as it may, we shall have to accept this decision.

It is no use pretending that is does not exist.


Such is a given position at a given moment in the history of Malaysia.

It will not always remain so.

It is our duty over the years to make sure that it does not remain so, and that thinking, feeling shall cut across race lines and shall cut across language, culture, race, and integrate and rally around economic interests.

If we do not succeed in doing that, then we shall always be playing this game of checks and balances.
is their raised raised the M.I.C.-and largely Chinese.

So, issues which sensitivity their of One of the interesting features of this debate is the issues raised by re presentatives of rural areas as com pared to those raised by the representa tives of urban areas.

By and large, it, is fair to say that UMNO, including the other parties of the Alliance-the M.C.A.

and the P.M.I.P.
issues which show their sensitivity to their own Malay mass base, the rural base being, as for Pontian Selatan the Member honestly stated, largely Malay; and the urban base Members, including the non-Chinese Member for Ipoh, in tum they the to reflected ground, susceptibilities which the Member for Ipoh raised issues about multi-lingualism, Nanyang University, equal rights-issues which have in fact been settled in Singapore; and the Member for Pontian Selatan raised issues about Geylang Serai markets, special rights for Malays and the need for more special privileges.
This is a new phase in the political development in Malaysia.

of For as long as we were sectionalised into the old eleven States of Malaya, Singapore and the Borneo territories, burning issues, which were in fact common issues to all the territories, · found expression only in parts of it.

Multi-lingualism and Chinese educa tion were fought fiercely in Singapore, whilst there was a silence maintained over the last few years in the old House of Parliament before Malaysia.
De mands for Malay rights, for special jobs in treatment, for the Govern fair a is that ment-I the various States think 421 21 MAY 1964 422 for the Member interpretation of the phrase used Pontian by Selatan, Badan2 Kerajaan, these issues never became burning issues in the different context of Singapore.

Now we have all these issues thrown into the same political arena.

We would all be well advised, if we all took some time to let things settle and find a new equilibrium.
It is no longer possible for people in the Peninsula to pretend that Nanyang University is not a pro blem of the 11 States of Malaya, even though 60 per cent of the students in Nanyang come from Malaya.
Similarly, in spite of the different constitutional guarantees of the Government's obli gations to the economic, religious and cultural advancement of the Malay r people, it is going to be more and more difficult for us to find different solu imbalance caused by tions unequal development, both economic and educational, between the Malays on the one hand, the Chinese, Indians and others on the other.
the to it the same Now, language talk frankly this Chamber, as the differences of treatment of these problems must continue for some time.

We should on both sides try to approximate our solutions to what are basically the same problems.

The only difference in the problem is that in one territory it manifests itself in a greater degree than the other.

Mr Speaker, Sir, I do not believe that term, at the end of our five-year if we to eaclb.
other is our in duty so to do, we shaIJ be talking in that we are using today.

We face the same problems, because we in one society.

If we do not resolve them, if we are only to pander to particular sections of the community, then our chances of survival-long term-are the moment external nil, because pressures are removed, the various communal sections go their separate :ways, and perdition awaits us.
But if we consciously try to imbue those, leaders of who look up opinion-for after all the 159 Mem bers in this House do represent, in varying degrees a broad cross-section of the population-if we can come and speak on the same wave-length and to us as live understand each other's mutual diffi culties, first as between States and then as between communities, then we are that much the more certain to endure and survive.

Sir, I come now to the external threat-confrontation.
The verdict given on the 25th of April has added to the strength of the Prime Minister and his colleagues to face the rigours of Indonesia's confrontation.

Already in the last few weeks one senses the confidence with which the Prime Minister is standing up to the stresses and strains of what is likely to be a prolonged period of tension.

The para mount problem is how to resolve con frontation without undermining the basic security and integrity of Malay sia.

Let us never deceive ourselves.


Indonesia's geo-political ambition to engulf us and absorb us is an abiding one, and we have got to learn to live with this for the rest of our lives.

But if we show a resolution to be a nation, if we exhibit strength and stamina in combatting their pressures, then we will make it worth their while to find some way of withdrawing temporarily from the aggressive activities which called they "confrontation".
euphemistically have We have gone through nine months of these pressures.

Militarily and politically today we are stronger than we were nine months ago in September the 16th, 1963.

Economically, the collapse of Singapore and Penang, which Indonesia anticipated would follow her economic boycott, has not happened.

We have learnt how to live nearly as well without our entrepot trade with Indonesia.
I do not think, Mr Speaker, Sir, anybody in his senses can say that the same thing is true with Indonesia-that militarily, politi cally, or economically she is as strong as she was on the 16th September last year.

In fact, if foreign reports are to be believed, then militarily she has made only token gestures, about 21 million volunteers, one brigade of which will be sent to the Borneo territories at some indeterminate date.
Politically, the President, in spite of his great powers of oratory, is finding himself more and more dependent on 423 21 MAY 1964 424 in the communists mobilising people to attend his rallies.
An interesting one million strong rally in front of the Merdeka Palace turned out to be 50.000 people, and I am told by my colleague from Singapore, Dr Toh and I think the point well known to the former Ambassador to Indonesia that the power of the President of Indonesia to enthral hundreds of thousands of people was something quite fantastic.

So, it cannot be said, when the masses are :floating away, that politically he has strengthened himself.
Economically, Mr Speaker, Sir, everybody knows that without a large dose of American economic aid, Indonesia may find it difficult to con tinue her economic confrontation and feed her population at the same time.

Sir, all it means is that with every passing month our position vis-a-vis Indonesia improves.

Hence, I see very little merit five-point pro the gramme for peace propounded b)j the Member for Batu.
I notice that he had altered the contents and the pre sentation of these five points from what was enunciated in the elections by his Party.

Let me ask him this one very simple question, which I hope his colleagues, either from Singapore or from Sarawak, will find time later to answer.

What benefit will we get by agreeing to his five points?

I can see the benefit that hes would get and Indonesia would get by our agreeing to these five points.
All his friends in to run detention will be released around and win the next elections, so I can see an he says obvious advantage in that-that is one of the five terms.

Obviously it has been agreed with Indonesian Presi dent that they will continue confron tation for as long as these gentlemen arc are released and they can bring the nation down from within, then the Indone sian President need no longer try to from without, destroy Malaysia because these gentlemen will continue to destroy it from within.
incarcerated.

When (Laughter).

they that this would leave four hundred thousand Indonesians to confront ten thousand Malaysians.

Obviously the point was taken by those in authority, and now he underlines it and says "British and Indonesian".

What I fail to understand is this.


Is he suggesting to the Bung that Indonesian troops should withdraw from the island of Borneo, or that Indonesian troops withdraw from our side of Borneo to Kalimantan, British troops withdraw altogether from the whole of this region and we leave, therefore, on the borders Malaysians troops, which he has very kindly allowed that we should have the right to keep in Borneo-five battalions of Malaysian troops to be confronted by four hundred thousand Indonesian?
is he suggesting Mr Speaker, Sir, the people of Malaysia, either urban or rural, even if we go to the utmost hinterland of the Rejang River, are sophisticated enough to see what else must follow in those circumstances.

We get rid of the British, we have become indepen dent, we shall tell the world that we are free, and then what?

Afro-Asian troops, says he, will guard our borders-for the rest of eternity to ensure that we are not overrun.
Afro Asian troops to guard our coastline, patrol Singapore's waters, to see that infiltrators and saboteurs do not come through?

Afro-Asian navies to patrol the Straits of Malacca to ensure that fishermen are not robbed and killed?

He has today taken a very bold step.

He has denounced the murder of our fishermen-I listened to it with con siderable interest.

He is against the to President of crush Malaysia.

Well, is an advance, Mr Speaker, Sir (Laugh ter}-that is something.
At least now that we we know, because before thought inciting they were actively them to crush us, but now we know that, at least on face value, they are against it.

Indonesia's policy that Dr Tan Chee Khoon: We never did.

He says, "Let us withdraw all our foreign troops".

Mr Speaker, Sir, I remember the last time in the elec tions, when we pointed out to them Enche' Lee Kuan Yew: Of course they have to be against it.

If they do not switch line, the masses will melt away.
These are phrases which, if he 425 21 MAY 1964 426 far for that thanked released, them, he the Government him, preventing would consult his good friends, who have spent many years in places where reflection and contemplation brings better wisdom to left-wing adventurers (Laughter), he will know is is happening.
One of actually what from them recently for denouncing him incarcerating from being an election agent in Singapore, or elsewhere, to win elec tions the Government for kindness and courtesy and good treatment; and he went on to add that as long as they oppose Malaysia, there will be an albatross around their necks.

That is what it is.
That is what it is.

to know now, What I would like having seen to this switch prevent the masses from disintegrating around the Party, is whether that line is supported by their counterparts in Singapore.

This interesting ideological problem.

There, in Singa anti- pore, issue the colonialism must be fought bitterest end, whether national service should be opposed, registration should be opposed, even to the point of open defiance of law and authority.

They their have been unable problem.


is whether to resolve is an line the in to the the two Now, them, remaining Indonesia's leaders (Laughter), of the communist open front in Malaya say, "Let us go one step further and dissociate ourselves from crush Malaysia policy".

Now, let me tell them the problems that they face.

Once they ideological embark on theoretician from Nanyang Univer sity—trained minds—will be able to tell them this: that more and more they will be pushed to the revisionist line.
First, you dissociate yourself from Soekarno and crushing Malaysia; next you will be taxed as to whether you are prepared to defend Malaysia.

For a long time that again was a bit of equivocation.

Some said they were defending Malaya, some said they were defending Malaysia; they were not quite sure what they were defend ing (Laughter).

Now, we have it on that in principle they will authority I defend it against anybody.
But would like to know from the Barisan Sosialis of Singapore the last shall says, the last such that to thought Enche' Lim Kean Siew: Mr Speaker, Sir, on a point of clarification.

I have five for been wondering minutes whether or not to rise on a point of order—Standing Order 36, (6), which Sub-section "No member improper impute motives to any other member".
But, Mr Speaker, Sir, having heard the last ten minutes the ridiculous length to which the Prime Minister of Singapore was going—by the way, I do not know why he calls himself Prime Minister, since Singapore is already a State he should in fact be called Chief Minister so as not to confuse the fact that we have only one Prime Minister—but ten having heard him for ridiculous minutes going lengths, I the subject was more senseless than improper and therefore I had not objected.
But on think we a point of clarification, I have always maintained, and I per sonally have maintained during the elections that if our country or, in fact, if any part of Malaysia, includ territories, were ing attacked by an aggressive force, we would defend it, and I did invite the Honourable Prime Minister of Singa pore to go forward first and then I would follow (Laughter), but he has not as yet accepted the challenge.

(Laughter).
(Laughter).

I do not know why he has not accepted and is talking of loyalty, since he keeps on telling everybody else to go to war.

The issue that we are confronted with is the nature and the character of the so-called fighting in Borneo, and I have heard, Mr Spea ker, Sir, for the last twenty minutes a diatribe from the Prime Minister of Singapore on ideological stand and revisionist lines and so on.
Mr Spea ker, Sir, we have not had the advan tage of reading subversive literature; therefore, we were not quite well up on revisionism of Moscow as opposed to that of Peking.

speaker Perhaps, the Honourable could enlighten us further before he proceeds with his condem nation.

But, Mr Speaker, Sir, we must object, however, very strongly to his the question of the Bornean that in 427 21 MAY 1964 428 constant reference that we are a com munist open front organisation.
If he has any evidence, then he should prove it, and he should prove it in the proper quarters, and not use political slander against his opponents.

We know that he finds sitting next to us to be sitting next to very strange companions, but as he is used to sleeping with so many strange bed companions that I am sure he has got used to the idea that all his friends are very strange.

Mr Speaker, Sir, we admit that he has arrested people whom he disliked and one or two may have revised their policy.
But, Mr Speaker, Sir, I think that the Honour able the Prime Minister of Singapore should be more careful, when he makes references to the Socialist Front of Malaya which he knows very little.

Enche9 Lee Kuan Yew: The very lax clarification, Mr Speaker, Sir, is ample testimony of a very confused situation.

(Laughter).

Enche' Lim Kean Siew: Of course, Mr Speaker, Sir, with thanks to him.
Dr Tan Chee Khoon: Mr Speaker, Sir, on a point of clarification, I have made it quite clear that we are not a communist party, nor are we a communist open front organisation, nor do we toe the Partai Komunis Indonesia line, nor are we aligned to any foreign political party.

I have stated that, Mr Speaker, Sir, just now very, very clearly in no uncertain terms.
Enche' Lee Kuan Yew: The very fact that both the leader and his follower have come to the rescue in the clarification makes my point even the stronger.

(Laughter).

Sir, obviously our two Honourable Members from Batu and Dato Kramat are unaware of the mass of jargons, which their own followers have been spewing forth in the course of this election.

The Member for Dato Kramat says he does not understand this jargon.
I suggest to him that he ought to read what his own Enche' Lim Kean Siew: On a point of clarification, Mr Speaker.

I do not understand his jargon.

(Laughter).

to that Enche' Lee Kuan Yew: Be that as it may.

I was just quoting phrases from pamphlets distributed by the Socialist Front in this election.

Their line against Malaysia is purely coin the P.K.I, uses— cidental exactly the same terms and the same words.
In fact, quite unashamedly they have the brazenness to claim that it is the P.K.I, that followed them.

(Laughter).

Sir.

we are not able to read men's minds, we can only read their open avowals.

We compare their open declarations with those of the P.K.I.

We find a similarity not only of intention but of the phraselogy.

What inference can we draw, I ask the Member for Batu, other than the fact that both pens must have sprung from the same source?

But be that as it may.


I am glad, anyway, that here is one, who is prepared on behalf of the ignorance of the dangers to which he has opened himself, to say, "Prove that we are an open front communist organisation?"

Mr Speaker, Sir, that invitation we accept.

I did not know that this was going to be the line.

I mean the line that more intelligent and sophisticated communists have taken in Singapore is, "This is all nonsense.

We refuse to discuss all that".

That is a much better line.


When a prisoner is in the dock, a good counsel always tell him, "If you really did it, better make a statement from the dock and refuse to get into an argument".

(Laughter).

But here is one who said that he is not a political virgin, Mr Speaker, Sir—I think his must have been an artificial insemina tion—(Laughter).

I can assure him that this invitation now opens him up to a humiliation, the end results of which would make him completely dis qualified for any nunnery.
However, to more serious matters.

Sir, whatever the temporary changes in policy or Indonesia, line from whether confrontation is switched on or off, her intention to absorb us and complete her hegemony of the South- East Asian archipelago will always remain and always be a constant threat to our separate existence.
Every time an Indonesian nationalist looks at the map of Nusantara—this is what they 429 21 MAY 1964 430 the archipelago in South-East call Asia—they see the peninsula of Malay sia running parallel to Sumatra point ing towards Jawa; and they see a very agreeable part of Northern Kalimantan cut off by a small mountain range to form part of Malaysia.

representatives of Mr Speaker, Sir, we had the advantage in Singapore of the biggest Indonesian mission outside Washing ton.
The only place where they had a bigger mission of more importance to them was Washington, because of the various reasons, reasons, material which everybody is aware of.

We once put on a cultural show and invited all the the various missions in Singapore to put on their contribution, and the vivid presentation by the Indonesian mission was one for which, we should always be grateful to them.
When the curtains opened, there was some magnificent map illuminated in neon lights of Nusantara, and a voice gave a graphic commentary of the various costumes worn by the various peoples of Nusantara, stretching from Acheh in the north down to Merauki in the South.
"Three thousands miles", said sat back enthralled by this map, "farther than to Washington—Nusan- from Tokyo tra"; and the lights blinkered forth from Acheh, from Medan, and as each light blinked, the costume of that area came forth in a man and a woman, and at any single moment I expected the bulbs for Kuala Lumpur and Singapore to light up.

(Laughter).
(Laughter).

this voice as we Sir, every time, if I were an Indo nesian national which, fortunately, I am not, I look at that map, there is the temptation to round of Nusantara and complete the hegemony of the whole region.

As President Soekarno says, if he had Malaya—this is in 1945 before the formation of Indonesia—then the control of the Straits of Malacca is complete.

It is not complete as long as he has only one side of it.
Then, if you the Straits of Malacca, you control control the sea access to the whole of the Indonesian archipelago, and the Australian Navy will be refused access to sail upwards to Japan.

So, let us be quite frank and honest.

It may be "on" or it may be "off", but only a strong and united Malaysia can dampen the temptation to incorporate this wealthy and attractive sector into their map.

Finally, Mr Speaker, Sir, may I sketch out the role that my Party hopes to play in this Parliament.
We would like to speak for those in Malaysia who are against bigotry, bigotry either ideologically of the communists, or of religious obscurantists.

We would like to speak for those against communal chauvinism of any community.
We would that desire to represent which must exist in those who are born and bred here, who understand that our fates are interwined, the fates of the various communities in Malaysia, that there should be intelligent and rational solutions to the special pro blems of a multi-racial society.

We are here to help to create a harmonious non-communal society, where pros is shared amongst all more perity equally regardless of race, religion, culture.

like to any these thirty different between today.


The Sir, the diverse origins of the people of Malaysia bringing together into one- thousand square hundred and languages, miles so many different cultures, traditions, habits, social customs and morals make tolerance the key pre-requisite success.
British colonial domination brought these disparate groups together, and it was the over-riding British strength which ensured that conflicts and con tradictions diverse groups were never allowed to lead to conflict and anarchy.

The position is vastly easy solution of an authoritarian Govern ment, whose will is backed by over whelming force, is not open to us; nor can we provide a permanent solution to our own social, cultural and linguis tic problems.
Ours is a much more and of difficult reconciling to competing, different cultural and social values into a rational, harmonious, whole.

From out of this Chamber must come the first Malaysians, and if Malaysians constitute the majority of this Chamber at the end of the five years, then we would not have failed.

But if at the thinking.


end of feeling, reacting, not as Malaysians but term we are persuading loyalties task that 431 21 MAY 1964 432 as so many Malayans, Singaporeans, Sarawakians, Sabahans, or worse re acting as so many Malays, Chinese, Indians, or equally bad reacting as so many Muslims, Christians and others, then our future will be in jeopardy.
in the taken One of reasons, Sir, why western style parliamentary democracy has not the newly roots independent countries of Asia and Africa is because the Governments in contemplate with power do equanimity that power could pass to an Opposition, and also because the Opposition usually opposes merely to bring the Government down regardless of the harm inflicted upon the country generally.

thought not the Sir, we have the advantage in the P.A.P.
of having played the role both of Opposition and of Government in Singapore, and we bring to our duties as the Opposition in this Parliament an acute understanding of the difficulties that faces the Government, the delicate and sensitive issues with which from time to time it will be confronted.

We want Malaysia to succeed.

It will give us very little consolation if our Party's prospects heighten as the nation goes down.
For what could be worse than the prospect of sharing responsibility the running of the Government, for when both the administration have sagged.

The more prosperous the more the country, efficient and honest the administration, the better are the nation's chances of success.

the economy and this time, he Sir, the Prime Minister has never been personally in so strong a position.
In fact, he is even stronger now than in 1955 when the Alliance won 50 out is of 51 seats, for returned after nine years in office and everybody knew what they were voting for.

From his position of strength, he can demand high standards, high stan dards from his colleagues in the Party and in the Government and from the officials in the administration.

And if he does so, the country will be that much the healthier and eventually the happier for it.
From us he will get no carping criticism for the sake of scoring points, for the simple reason that we to see interest that have a vested Malaysia succeeds—and Malaysia can not succeed unless he succeeds.

Our criticism will, therefore, be directed to this end for if he fails, we know it does not mean that we shall succeed.

The chances are we shall all fail together, as the country changes from the system of representative government to one of authoritarian government.
that We are not here, Mr Speaker, Sir, in the naive belief that power is vested in the counting of heads in this Cham ber.

If perchance, the counting of heads go wrong, if, for example, on the 25th of April the Socialist Front, instead of being exposed as a pro-P.K.I.
Party, had been believed as the saviours of the nation and they had, let us say, won 60 out of the 104 seats—barring the 40 seats from Sabah and Sarawak and 15 from Singapore—nobody in his right mind would expect the following day a great leader would be summoned to the Istana.

That is not the realities of power, Mr Speaker, Sir.

We are here representing what I hope represent adults.

We are political various real and forces which are abiding, and we must reconcile them.
If we do not reconcile them within the system of representative government and let the interplay of forces create a new equilibrium on social and econo mic matters—on questions of langu age, culture, Malay special rights, jobs in the Government and so on, if we just take communal premises, on either side, whether it is for or against, then I say one day the counting of heads will go wrong and then resort is had to other means of administering the country.

It has happened in so many other countries in Asia.
If we are wise—and by that I do not mean just the Government, if we in the Opposi tion are also wise—we could ensure that this system works to the advantage of all, because it is in nobody's advan tage for more forms.

Authoritarian authoritarian form once established never relinquish es relentless process must go on—perhaps, first, a dictatorship of the right, eventually ending up with a dictatorship of the extreme left.
But just in case our friends its position, and abandon this the to 433 21 MAY 1964 434 from the Socialist Front, Barisan Sosialis, and S.U.P.P.

take any comfort in that, let me remind them that, if and when it will be an Indonesian extreme left and they would find uncomfortable—I suggest more uncomfortable than they are now, today.
that happens, equally life is this: So, my closing remark, Mr Speaker, Sir, that having a vested interest in the survival and success of representative government in Malaysia, it is our intention to make our con tribution to this end.

Enche' Lim Huan Boon (Singapore): Mr Speaker, Sir, these are critical years in the history of our country and a great responsibility rests upon us to speak our minds clearly and without fear, so that our people may know the issues that are at stake.
Sir, we are now reaping the harvest of poisonous fruit from the Malaysian seed.

The full price in misery and suffering for our people arising out of Malaysia is yet to be paid in full.

The fact that there is national registration and national call up indicates the way our country is moving.
For all this, both the Federal and the State Governments must be held responsible, for although it is the British who are calling the tune in our Malaysia policy, it is these Govern ments that must be held accountable to our people.

truly intends Sir, I have searched vainly in His Majesty the Yang di-Pertuan Agong's Gracious Speech for one sign that the ruling party to break away from the tutelage of the British to join independent nation.

I have a only to imperialism.


Sir, Malaysia is a neo- colonialist creation, because it is the most major act of consolidation of colonialism in South-East Asia.

By its formation .

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found a slavish adherence Enche' Lee Kuan Yew: On a point of clarification .

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Mr Speaker: Do you give way?

Enche' Lim Huan Boon: No, Sir.

Mr Speaker: No, he does not give way.


Enche' Lim Huan Boon: The Bri tish could crawl back through the back window and continue to exert their influence by creating tension and then the pretext of defending return on Malaysia.

Yet we are fed with the propaganda line that Malaysia is anti- colonial in character.

We are expected to believe that Britain, who is imposing the Aden Federation on the Arab- Yemen people, is a force of national ism.

How ridiculous can you become?


The Malaysian Federation is a twin of the Aden Federation.

The British military bases and financial investment are the motives behind the creation of both these these Federations.

Both Federations are created and maintained by the British as fortresses for the defence of their economic interests and as a basis for intervening in the affairs of the neighbouring countries.

Just as the people of the trucious States, the Yemen and the Aden will one day come together.
Similarly, the people of Borneo States and of Malaya will come together out of their own free will and in peace with their neighbours if they are let alone to form the kind of unity suitable to themselves.

But the way Malaysia has been formed, the type of Malaysia and its terms make a federa tion unreal.

We should have no part in a foreign-inspired federation.

We prevent our country from becoming an unsinkable aircraft carrier for British military in South-East Asia.
adventures through the people the present conflict Mr Speaker, Sir, the central fact that has created in South-East Asia, is a British attempt to create a Malaysian Federation by denying the simple but fundamental right to decide for them selves self-determination, proper explanation and voting.

If the Government has not tired of saying that the people of Singapore and Borneo support Malaysia, why don't they give say them to Malaysia under "yes" or "no" conditions of full democracy?
is because their evading the simple process of letting the people to decide their destinies for themselves, that we have crisis.

All the criticisms can be silenced, Afro-Asia present Malaysia right the to It 435 21 MAY 1964 436 can be won over, confrontation can be ended, if only this Government dare to tell the world that it is prepared to give the people of Singapore, Sabah and Sarawak the right to say a simple "yes" or "no" to alternative choices for their country.
The fact that the Government dare not do this speaks for itself than all the comments I could make.

Sir, Malaysia is an artificial creation.

It is an empty shell that cannot survive without British troops.

We all know that the people of the Borneo States resent domination from Kuala Lumpur and as a result Malayans are unpopu lar there.

We know that Federal officers sent from Malaya are being kicked around by the expatriates there with the support of the Alliance leaders.
We know that as far as the Borneo terri the Central concerned, tories Government is a fiction as expatriates are the British military is running the war.

In fact, nothing has altered in Borneo except that a few Alliance "sarongs" have expatriate a "trousers".

running Borneo and replaced still few are Sir, as far as Singapore is concerned, let me reiterate once more that Singa pore is a captive State in Malaysia, that we have a second class citizenship and a semi-colonial status.
It is foolish, therefore, to come to Singapore to make propaganda to ask the people to die for Malaysia.

As long as the people of Singapore do not feel that they belong to a free community of people, so long will they have nothing to do with any thing that will help preserve Malaysia.
to support Dato' Donald Stephens (Sabah): Mr the Speaker, Sir, I rise motion of the Honourable Member for Port Dickson and, before I pro ceed, I would like to take upon myself to say, on behalf of His Majesty's people of the State of Sabah, how truly grateful we are for His Majesty's remarks in the Royal Address about Sabah and Sabah's Development Plan.

I am sure that the Government of Malaysia will do everything possible to help Sabah in regard to our Deve lopment Plan.
As the youngest State in Malaysia, Sabah needs all the help that she can get, and we are encouraged the Government will to know help us not only in dollars and cents but also in something just as impor tant—"know-how".

We have all seen how rural development is shaping here in Malaya, and we are learning from the success which has taken place here.

To us, rural development must be the key to a better future for the majority of our people.
In colonial times, the people of the rural areas have been sadly neglected and we, the elected representatives of the people, would have failed in our duty if we were to fail to improve the living standards of the people of the kampongs.
Every where I visited in Sabah, I was asked about the promises which were made before Malaysia—to give the people more and better schools, more and better health facilities, improvement of agricultural methods, more and better roads—and the work and the planning we are now doing is aimed at bring ing things which they have a right to expect.
the people all these to Sir, I might also mention that in Sabah stress not only is laid on social development but that we have in mind also the expansion of our economic development.

In the colonial days non- interests were strongly dis British couraged the taking part from economic development of the State.

But those days are gone.

The Sabah State Government now encourages and in welcomes those who would help the the economic development of State.
In the this respect naturally, State welcomes Malaysians from other States more than anyone else.

in I would like, Mr Speaker, Sir, also to touch on the subject of confronta looms the shadow of which tion, large along our border with Indonesia.

Sabah and Sarawak have a common border with Indonesia and it is a long border—930 miles long.

On the other the Indonesians that side we know are building up their forces which are being used aggression to commit against us.
The Indonesians speak of guerillas and volunteers, but we know for a fact—and the world should by now also know—that these men are 437 21 MAY 1964 438 not guerillas or volunteers, but that they are men belonging to Soekarno's Army, Navy and Air Force, men sent to Borneo from Java to commit acts of amongst our peace- terrorism loving people.
the one hand Soekarno We see in this morning's newspaper that on is reported to have agreed to the with drawal of troops from the Malaysian soil and to a summit meeting and on another page we read a report which says that Soekarno has spoken pub licly in front of foreign diplomats that he intends to crush Malaysia by the end of this year, summit or no sum mit.

How does one deal with people like him?


Be that as it may, Sir, I can say this for the people of Sabah: we the people of Sabah (and I know the people of Sarawak also) are not afraid of the evil confronters of Jakarta; and the people in the Borneo States, like their brothers throughout Malaysia, are prepared for any sacri their fice independence and the independence of Malaysia.
to preserve the fight in Not so long ago, I had the honour of addressing a gathering of Malaysian soldiers from the Peninsula, who had served along our borders.

These men have shown the Indonesians that they are real soldiers, who came to Sabah to defend Malaysia, but in so doing also used up what spare time they had in helping the people of the kampongs in building schools, in providing tem porary teachers from amongst them selves to help with the teaching.
They not only kept the enemy at bay but they also provided the people with amenities which they had wanted for a long time; and they have also proved that the they not only could fight enemy but they also helped in instil ling the people of our kampongs with civic pride, and that Malaysia was not merely a new word but had meaning in its truest sense in that all the peoples of Malaysia, from whatever corner they may come, are one.
The men of the Royal Malay Regiment have done much to put Malaysia in concrete form before the in people of our distant kampongs Sabah and I feel I would be failing the realisation in my duty if I did not mention this here and thank them for the magnifi cent job which they have done, and continue to do, in Sabah.

This also puts the lie to the assertion, just made by the Socialist Front Member from Singapore, that the soldiers who are fighting in Singapore are only British soldiers.
Dr Tan Chee Khoon: On a point of order, Mr Speaker.

The Chief Minister of Sabah mentioned the Socialist Front, which meant we.

There are only two Socialist Front Members here—I did not mention Singapore.

Dato' Donald Stephens: Sorry, Mr Speaker.

I meant the Barisan Sosialis.

(Laughter).

Dr Tan Chee Khoon: Well, that is better, Mr Speaker.

have openly Dato' Donald Stephens: Mr Speaker, Sir, the Royal Address also mentioned the Philippines.
We in Sabah, closest to the Philippines, have naturally been dismayed in the past by the action of some Filipino leaders.

But I must say that we are now glad to hear that the Philippines declared that they are not partners of Soekarno in Jakarta's policy of confrontation.

We hope that the consular relations which have been started between Malaysia and the Philippines will soon bloom forth into full diplomatic relations between our two countries.
Now, Mr Speaker, Sir, I must refer to the assertions made by the Honour able Member for Batu that Malaysia only came about because the Alliance rode roughshod over the wishes of the Opposition.

The Honourable Member used the word "puerile" when refer ring another Honourable Member earlier today.
I think that the same word can aptly I 3 used to describe the Honourable Member for Batu's remark about the formation of Malaysia and his so- called five points to solve what he called the Malaysian dispute but which is, in fact, Indonesian aggres sion.
Mr Speaker, Sir, I say this, and I say this with pride: as far as the people of Sabah is concerned, Malay sia was what they wanted; Malaysia statement of the to 439 21 MAY 1964 440 was what they worked for; Malaysia was what they have achieved; and Malaysia is what they will die for, if necessary (Applause).

What the Mem ber for Batu has asked was not a the Indonesian problem, solution of but what amounts to total surrender to Soekarno.
For someone who had taken this Honourable House to propose such a move is, to say the least, surprising.

the oath of loyalty in Dr Tan Chee Khoon: Mr Speaker, Sir, may I rise on a point of order?

Mr Speaker: What order?

Dr Tan Chee Khoon: On a point of clarification, Mr Speaker.
He has stated in my that I had advocated speech abject surrender to Indonesia, whereas I have stated that we should have peace—peace with honour and peace that safeguards the integrity of our the Chief Minister of Sabah did not hear me properly.

territory.

Perhaps Mr Speaker: That is on a point of clarification, not on a point of order.

Dr Tan Chee Khoon: Yes.


Dato' Donald Stephens: Mr Speaker, Sir, what I said was that the so-called five-point proposals put forward by the Member for Batu amounted to total surrender to Soekarno.

in to that showed the Sabah Alliance ignorance of affairs also The Honourable Member for Batu referred in derogatory terms.
It not only showed in his complete his it Sabah, the Socialist Front— colleagues former members like Karam Singh and David, and the Honourable Mem ber for Dato Kramat—had failed to tell him that they had visited Sabah once before Malaysia came into being; and once only, and that once was enough, because they found in Sabah that the poison they had intended to implant there was totally rejected by every section of the population.
They found the Sabah soil was no place for their form of subversion and they have not returned since.

They know that the Alliance in Sabah is made of pure steel and the acid of could their communist propaganda that not dent it, not even one bit of it, and the Sabah Alliance because of had been picked as the subject of their puerile attack.

this elections certainly Mr Speaker, Sir, the Honourable Member for Batu spoke of despera tion.
A party which had won the sort of victory won by the Alliance in the recent has no reason to be desperate, but a party which has since got its already meagre number this Honourable House certainly has good reasons the voice we heard this morning singing the Soekarno praises—the voice of for Batu—was Honourable Member indeed a desperate person.

to be desperate, and the voice of reduced two to in Dr Tan Chee Khoon: Mr Speaker, Sir, may I rise on a point of clarifica tion?
I did not sing any praise of Soekarno.

In fact, I stated that we deplore and condemn the oft-repeated this threats of Soekarno country.

I did not sing any praise of Soekarno nor of Indonesia.

Perhaps the Chief Minister of Sabah did not hear me quite properly.

If he wants, I can give him a copy of my speech.

to crush the Member this song.


The way Dato' Donald Stephens: There are various ways of singing a song, Mr Speaker, Sir, and various ways of interpreting I for interpreted what Batu said was that he did indirectly sing songs in praise of Soekarno.
As I said, Mr Speaker, Sir, this was a desperate voice, a voice of someone that his who sees with clear eyes Party is on the verge of being totally the liquidated, liquidated Honourable Minister Home Affairs, as he would make it appear, but by the people of Malaysia them selves, who are now wise as to what the Socialist Front aims to do—to sell Malaysia down the drain.

That is the first step in their endeavour to help in the creation of a greater Commu nist Unprosperous Sphere in South- East Asia.
Thank you.

not by of Mr Speaker: The sitting is suspended for 15 minutes.

Sitting suspended at 6.00 p.m. 441 21 MAY 1964 442 Sitting resumed at 6.20 p.m. Wan Hassan bin Wan Daud (Tum- pat): Tuan Yang di-Pertua, saya suka hendak mengambil peluang dalam membahathkan Titah Uchapan Duli Yang Maha Mulia Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong ini.

Saya suka menyentoh di-dalam masaalah pilehan raya sa-bagaimana yang terkandong dalam uchapan titah Baginda itu.
Satu perkara yang paling menghairankan telah berlaku dalam pilehan raya baharu2 ini yang mana ini ada-lah menyebabkan saya merasa sangsi di- atas kechekapan Surohanjaya Pilehan Raya yang di-adakan baharu2 ini.

Satu perkara yang saya menyatakan kehairanan itu, ia-lah dalam kawasan saya dalam pilehan raya baharu2 ini orang2 yang mempunyai kad penge- nalan merah ya'ani yang tidak menjadi kera'ayatan juga telah di-daftarkan dan telah menjadi pengundi pada hari mengundi itu.
Saya perchaya ini ia-lah satu perkara yang tidak patut berlaku demikian kerana sa-bagaimana kita tahu orang2 yang tidak menjadi kera' ayatan—(tidak mempunyai taraf warga negara) ini sa-patut-nya tidak di-boleh- kan mengundi dan tidak mempunyai hak2 politik dalam negeri ini.

Sudah tentu-lah pehak Kerajaan akan ber- tanya kenapa-kah tidak di-buat peng- aduan?

Yang sa-benar-nya, saya telah pun membuat pengaduan pada hari tetapi tersebut kapada P.O.

yang pengaduan saya itu telah di-diamkan bagitu sahaja.
Tuan Yang di-Pertua, satu perkara lagi yang saya fikir tidak patut berlaku dalam pilehan raya yang saya fikir mengancham demokrasi negeri ini ia-itu-lah pehak Kerajaan Perikatan telah menggunakan alat2 negara saperti Jabatan Penerangan, Radio untok berkempen bagi pehak-nya dalam pilehan raya ini.
Dalam kawasan saya boleh di-katakan pegawai2 penerangan yang telah di-tugaskan oleh Kerajaan untok membuat penerangan kapada ra'ayat telah berubah menjadi pegawai2 Perikatan yang memberi penerangan dan kempen bagi pehak Perikatan dan pernah berterang2 menyeru orang ramai supaya mengundi kapada pehak Peri katan.
azimat kapada tudohan Tuan Yang di-Pertua, Ahli Yang telah Berhormat dari Hilir Perak tudohan yang bukan2 mengeluarkan kapada pehak PAS yang saya perchaya tudohan ini ada-lah tidak berasas dan tidak mempunyai bukti sadikit pun umpama-nya tudohan2 azimat.
Saya perchaya ini di-buat oleh orang Perikatan yang telah kehabisan modal dalam pilehan raya baharu ini, entah di-mana dia berjumpa azimat chaching barangkali, entah ada orang2, kebanyakan orang Melayu di-kampong2 perchaya untok di-tengkok—(di-leher) di-gantongkan anak2 yang berpenyakit chaching barangkali, maka itu di-katakan-lah azimat sabil yang telah di-keluarkan oleh pehak PAS.
Yang sa-benar-nya, Tuan Yang di-Pertua, kami pehak PAS tidak-lah berniat dan tidak akan melakukan pekerjaan2 yang sa-umpama ini.

Dengan tidak mempunyai azimat pun kita pehak PAS telah berjaya— telah mendapat kemenangan dalam pilehan raya dalam tahun 1959 dahulu di-Kelantan.

Ahli Yang Berhormat dari Hilir Perak juga telah mengatakan yang orang PAS ini telah banyak melakukan dosa dan PAS akan di-tanya oleh Tuhan lebeh dahulu dalam kubor tahu nanti.
Entah-lah barangkali Ahli Yang Berhormat itu amat bijak bersabit dengan kubor dan sa-patut-nya dia di-lantek menjadi Menteri kubor.

tidak saya Tuan Yang di-Pertua, saya suka menyentoh di-dalam hujongan Ucha pan Titah Baginda ia-itu berhubong dengan Ranchangan Melawat Sambil Belajar.

Tuan Yang di-Pertua, Ran changan Melawat Sambil Belajar ini lebeh banyak merupakan lawatan makan angin bagi orang2 Perikatan.
Kerana boleh di-katakan 95 peratus daripada orang yang di-pileh untok mengadakan Lawatan Sambil Belajar itu terdiri daripada orang2 Perikatan.

Saya menyatakan umpama-nya dalam lawatan gerakan sharikat kerjasama, sa-patut-nya orang2 yang ahli dalam sharikat kerjasama atau yang meng ambil bahagian dalam sharikat kerja- sama-lah dalam lawatan ini.
Tetapi apa yang telah lawatan bagi ahli2 berlaku, dalam sharikat kerjasama yang terpileh untok peluang di-beri 443 21 MAY 1964 444 mengadakan lawatan itu ia-lah Setia- Usaha atau pun Ketua Pemuda UMNO atau pun Ketua UMNO.

Dalam lawatan untok ahli2 kesatuan sekerja pun yang terpileh untok pergi dalam ia-lah Setia-usaha atau lawatan Ketua Pemuda UMNO atau Ketua UMNO juga.
ini saya suka menyentoh Tuan Yang di-Pertua, bagaimana uchapan Yang Berhormat dari Temer- titah loh menyesali bahawa dalam Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong tidak menyebutkan sadikit pun masaalah ugama Islam sa-bagai ugama rasmi dalam negeri ini.

Saya juga pehak PAS sangat menyesali di-atas hal ini dan sadikit dalam masaalah pelajaran yang ber- hubong dengan guru2 ugama di- sekolah2 menengah.
Tuan Yang di- Pertua, pelajaran ugama dalam sekolah2 menengah boleh-Iah di-katakan amat- lah tidak terator-nya dari segi sukatan pelajaran, juga dari segi guru2-nya yang mana guru2 ugama di-dalam sekolah2 menengah telah tidak di-beri layanan yang sa-wajar-nya sa-bagai sa-orang guru.

Kita pernah mendengar rayuan2 dari pehak guru2 ugama melalui akhbar2 yang mengatakan ini telah di-beri gaji yang mereka sama dengan peon atau pun office boy yang saya fikir sangat-lah tidak patut.
Bagaimana-kah sa-orang yang bertaraf guru untok mendidek ke- turunan kita di-masa yang akan datang dengan baik-nya sedangkan mereka itu telah di-beri layanan sa-bagitu burok yang mana sa-tengah2 daripada-nya telah di-beri gaji sa-banyak hanya-lah $90 sa-bulan.
supaya perkara Tuan Yang di-Pertua, saya berharap pehak Kementerian Pelajaran me- mandang berat akan perkara ini dan ini saya berharap manakala di-sampaikan kapada pehak yang berkenaan tidak-lah di-tanggoh2- kan lagi dengan menubohkan Jawatan- kuasa ini bagaimana yang telah berlaku dalam masa2 yang lepas.

Tuan Yang di- Pertua, untok merengkaskan masa dalam Rumah yang mulia ini saya suka menyentoh sadikit lagi pertama dalam hujongan titah uchapan Baginda ia-itu- lah masaalah pelajaran dewasa.
Tuan Yang di-Pertua, saya tidak-lah hendak itu dan Jawatan-kuasa tidak-lah ranchangan itu mengatakan bahawa ranchangan satu ranchangan yang membazir, sa- benar-nya itu kesemua-nya membazir bagaimana kata Yang Berhormat dari Hilir Perak bahawa PAS semua-nya menganggap ranchangan luar bandar itu membazir.

Sa-benar-nya tidak semua, tetapi ada sa-tengah2-nya di-fikirkan membazir, tetapi tidak-lah membazir 100%, ada faedah-nya, tetapi sadikit sangat.
Yang ini di-ubah sa-patut-nya ranchangan kapada ranchangan lebeh banyak memberi faedah, umpama-nya pelajaran dewasa, apa yang berlaku sa-kali di-Kelantan kelas2 terutama dewasa di-adakan bukan-lah bertujuan untok mengajar bersunggoh2 supaya orang2 ramai dapat menulis dan membacha, tetapi lebeh banyak me- rupakan kelas2 untok mengajar perkara politik Perikatan.
lain yang guru2-nya tiap2 kelas Dan sa-lain daripada itu saya fikir kelas2 itu ada-lah paling banyak sa-kali menipu wang Kerajaan, kerana dalam itu mereport kata-nya ada 20 orang atau 25 orang, yang sa-benar-nya kelas itu sa-tengah2-nya ada dua atau tiga orang murid dan ada sa-tengah-nya tidak mempunyai murid langsong, saya dapat membuktikan hal ini, boleh di-katakan orang2 di-Kelantan sekarang ini meng- ubah nama kelas dewasa itu dengan kelas duasa kata-nya, kerana kebanya- kan kelas2 itu ada dua orang dan sa-orang pun ada dan sa-tengah kelas langsong dan itu tidak ada murid guru2 yang mengajar itu hanya-lah dapat elaun pasang lampu sahaja $4 satu jam.
Tuan Yang di-Pertua, saya fikir ini ada-lah satu perkara yang tidak bagus dan tidak baik, maka kalau-lah ranchangan ini hendak di- lanjutkan juga saya berharap supaya pehak Kementerian yang bertanggong- jawab supaya menyiasat betul2 hal ini dan menyusun kelas2 itu biar-lah menjadi kelas dewasa yang benar2 mengajar dan benar2 murid-nya ada untok di-ajar menulis dan membacha supaya tidak-lah wang negara mem bazir bagitu sahaja.

Tuan Yang di- Pertua, saya suka menyentoh masaalah kesihatan.
Tadi, ada Yang Berhormat memperkatakan masaalah kekurangan doctor.

Masaalah ini ada-lah sangat 445 21 MAY 1964 446 di-rasai terutama sa-kali bagi kami pendudok2 di-Kelantan.

Umpama-nya kawasan yang saya wakili yang mem- punyai' lebeh kurang 45 ribu pendudok tidak mempunyai sa-orang doctor pun.
Dan ini ada-lah satu perkara yang sangat2 menyusahkan ra'ayat dan baharu2 ini dalam dua minggu yang lalu satu kejadian cholera telah berlaku dalam kawasan saya yang menyebab- kan beratus2 orang telah menghidapi penyakit itu dan dua orang telah mati.
Manakala perkara itu di-beritahu kapada pehak pegawai kesihatan maka pehak pegawai kesihatan hanya pergi sahaja di-situ tidak membuat penyia- satan kerana dia bukan-lah sa-orang doktor, tetapi hanya sa-orang Hospital Assistant terbiar-lah masaalah itu hingga-lah penyakit itu bermahrajalela terutama sa-kali di- kampong2 kawasan saya yang ber- sempadan dengan Thailand.

sahaja.
sahaja.

Jadi, Saya berharap kapada Kementerian yang berkenaan supaya mengambil perhatian berat dalam masaalah ini dan jangan-lah pehak Kementerian ini memikirkan orang2 di-negara PAS tidak di-serangi oleh penyakit, sa- benar-nya penyakit itu akan menyerang manusia ini di-mana sahaja mereka berada.

Sakian-lah sahaja, Tuan Yang di-Pertua.


tadi kita suka-lah mengambil Enche' Abdul Karim bin Abu (Melaka Selatan): Tuan Yang di- titah Pertua, dalam membahathkan uchapan di-Raja saya wakil Melaka Selatan ke- sempatan beruchap dalam Dewan yang ini.

Tuan Yang di-Pertua, bertuah telah sa-bentar baharu mendengar wakil PAS beruchap ber- hubong dengan pilehan raya.

Tuan Yang di-Pertua, pilehan raya telah berlalu.


Wakil PAS telah menapikan azimat yang telah di-sebarkan dalam akhbar itu bukan datang-nya daripada PAS.

Tetapi di-negeri Melaka bukan sahaja azimat yang di-laungkan oleh PAS, sa-hingga PAS menyuarakan tidak tidak mengundi PAS kalau masok shorga, kalau undi PAS masok shorga.

Tuan Yang di-Pertua, telatah PAS semua makhlok tahu.
Jadi, tidak usah-lah PAS hendak berlindong2 telah kerana kekalahan PAS yang terbukti walau pun negeri Kelantan supaya menchari PAS menang.

Tetapi Perikatan telah dapat kejayaan juga.


Tuan Yang di- Pertua, pada hari sa-malam wakil PAS juga telah memainkan tarian, tarian yang lama dan gendang yang lama, walau pun saya baharu menjadi Ahli Dewan ini, tetapi saya mengikuti 5 tahun yang sudah atas telatah2 PAS, apa yang di-katakan oleh wakil PAS memberi kata2 kapada Perikatan me- nunjokkan kapada parti Perikatan, jalan menyuroh damai menchari jalan baik berhubong dengan konfrantasi Indonesia.
Tetapi saya suka hendak bertanya kapada PAS, jalan bagaimana chara damai chara yang baik untok kita hendak berdamai dengan Indo nesia?

Perkara ini memang pernah di- laungkan oleh PAS sa-tiap masa, pada pendapat saya apa yang di- uchapkan-nya oleh wakil PAS 5 tahun yang rupa uchapan-nya pada hari sa-malam dan hari ini juga.
sa-rupa dengan tolong beri lalu Tuan Yang di-Pertua, wakil PAS pada hari sa-malam telah beruchap, sanggup menudoh Kerajaan Perikatan yang memerentah Malaysia ini akan menjadikan negeri ini negeri Cowboy.

Tuan Yang di-Pertua, rasa saya pe- merentahan PAS di-Kelantan-lah yang akan menjadi negeri Cowboy, kerana selalu berlaku perkara katok, perkara takut.

Ini kerja Cowboy.

Tuan Yang di-Pertua, saya suka beraleh kapada uchapan yang di- laungkan oleh wakil P.P.P.
Wakil ini juga beruchap apa yang di-laungkan- nya pada tahun2 yang sudah.

Pada kali ini itu juga uchapan-nya.

Uchapan- sa-mata2 hendak memechah- nya belahkan ra'ayat negeri ini, membawa kapada semangat perkauman di-dalam negeri ini dengan menyebutkan ber- istimewa orang2 ulang2 kali hak Melayu.

Berulang2 kali menyebutkan berbagai2 hendak memperjuangkan bahasa dalam Malaysia ini.

Malang- nya wakil P.P.P.

tidak ada dalam Majlis ini.

Kalau dia sedar ra'ayat telah mengutok dia, kekalahan P.P.P.
terbukti apa yang di- juga laungkan-nya tidak di-perchayai oleh ra'ayat lagi.

Dia hanya bergantong mendapat kerusi, kerana undi dari pada orang2 Tionghua, sebab itu-lah telah itu 447 21 MAY 1964 448 dia berchakap hendak memperjuang- kan berbilang bahasa.

Tuan Yang di-Pertua, hak istimewa orang2 Melayu selalu di-sebut2kan dalam Dewan yang bertuah ini.

Wakil P.P.P.
Wakil P.P.P.

telah menyebutkan konon-nya, dia beri satu chontoh berhubong dengan licence taxi ia-itu 47 peratus telah di-beri kapada orang2 Melayu, dan 53 peratus di-beri kapada orang2 yang bukan Melayu.

Ini sahaja wakil dari Ipoh itu nampak, tetapi saya suka mengalehkan pandangan pada Dewan ini, kalau sangat2 hati orang2 Melayu di-sakitkan, bagi pehak orang2 Melayu juga boleh memberikan pandangan yang sa-rupa dengan wakil itu.

Mari kita pandang di-Jabatan Keretapi, berapa orang2 Melayu ada?
Mari kita pandang di-Jabatan Pos, berapa orang2 Melayu ada?

Tolong-lah wakil P.P.P.

itu jawab.

Tuan Yang di-Pertua, saya berasa bimbang uchapan yang di-laungkan oleh wakil P.P.P.

ini.

Saya nampak lagu lama-nya itu akan hapus dalam tahun 1969 harus dia juga tidak dapat dudok dalam Parlimen ini, ra'ayat sahaja yang akan menentukan-nya.
Tuan Yang di-Pertua, berhubong dengan uchapan lain2 parti, rasa saya untok menghormati masa, kita sama2 telah mendengar serang balas berlaku di-antara satu parti dengan satu parti yang lain pada petang ini.

Jadi, saya mengambil kesempatan dalam Titah Uchapan Duli Yang Maha Mulia Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong berhubong dengan pemba- terchatit ngunan negara, ia-itu ada dalam Titah Uchapan berhubong dengan Kementerian Pertanian dan Sharikat Kerjasama.
Tuan Yang di-Pertua, kita tidak boleh menapikan ia-itu ada-lah gerak- an sharikat kerjasama ini ia-lah satu daripada-nya hendak meninggikan taraf hidup ra'ayat di-dalam Malaysia ini.
Jadi, kalau kita semak dalam Titah Uchapan itu, banyak sharikat2 kerjasama telah di-tubohkan di-tanah ayer kita, tetapi saya suka memberi pandangan pada pehak yang ber kenaan, bagitu banyak sharikat2 kerja sama di-tubohkan, maka yang menjadi yang kesusahan pegawai2 pada itu tadbir sharikat2 kerja menjalankan sama ia-lah perkara hendak memereksa buku2 sharikat.
Ini di- harap dapat di-tambah Pegawai2 Odit, umpama-nya di-bahagian selatan ia-itu Melaka dan Johor chuma ada dua orang sahaja Pegawai Odit, pada hal beratus2 buah sharikat ada dalam kawasan2 itu.

Ini satu daripada-nya yang menyebabkan kelemahan per- jalanan sharikat kerjasama.
Berhubong dengan sharikat kerja sama, saya suka menarek perhatian pada pehak yang berkenaan, saya merayu supaya sa-buah Badan Lem- baga Pemasaran patut di-tubohkan dengan sa-berapa segera, kerana dalam negeri2 yang telah maju, Lembaga Pemasaran ini telah di-tubohkan bagi mengawal barang2 umpama-nya padi dapat di-jual oleh petani2 dengan harga yang baik dan tidak meng- untongkan orang2 tengah.
Tuan Yang saya berchakap di-Pertua, terlanjor dalam hal sharikat kerjasama ini, walau pun bagi pehak Kerajaan telah menguntokkan banyak wang bagi me- majukan tetapi banyak orang tidak tahu ia-itu dalam tanah ayer kita ini telah di-tubohkan sa-buah bank, Bank Agong Sharikat (Apex Bank) yang di- Kerjasama dokong daripada sharikat2 kerjasama di-seluroh tanah ayer kita.
sharikat kerjasama, ahli2-nya oleh Tuan Yang di-Pertua, berhubong dengan Bank Agong Sharikat Kerja sama ini, saya sa-bagai salah sa-orang daripada Ahli Jema'ah Pengarah me rayu kapada pehak yang berkenaan supaya dapat mengambil perhatian yang berat untok memberi sokongan kapada Bank Agong Sharikat Kerja sama ini bagi dapat melancharkan pertolongan kapada kaum2 tani yang ada bersipah, berselirak di-tanah ayer kita.
Umpama-nya, bagi pehak Kera jaan ada menguntokkan wang lebeh kurang $51/2 juta kerana hendak meng- hapuskan padi kuncha.

Jadi, wang ini tidak dapat Bank Agong menjalankan dengan baik kerana tidak di-beri kuasa dengan penoh hanya dapat dengan chara beransor2.
Saya harap bagi pehak yang berkenaan akan dapat memberi keperchayaan kapada Bank Agong itu dengan mempertarohkan wang 449 21 MAY 1964 450 menjadi modal kapada Bank Agong kapada bagi memberi pertolongan sharikat2 kerjasama seluroh dalam tanah ayer kita.

Tuan Yang di-Pertua, saya beraleh pula kapada Kementerian Pelajaran.

Berhubong dengan Bulan Bahasa Ke- bangsaan kita sedia ma'alum Kerajaan telah menguntokkan wang yang bagitu banyak, 5378,000 kerana Bulan Bahasa Kebangsaan.
Jadi saya berpendapat wang ini kira-nya di-belanjakan kerana untok peraduan, sharahan, membacha dan lain2 sahaja tidak akan memberi kesan pada Bulan Bahasa Kebangsaan.
Jadi, di-harap bagi pehak Pengarah Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka dapat mengambil perhatian yang berat supaya menguntokkan sa-bahagian daripada wang itu mengikut sempena Bulan Bahasa Kebangsaan dengan menentu- kan satu2 pejabat, kata-lah, Pejabat Pelajaran hendak-lah di-tukar semua- nya sa-kali mesti-lah dengan meng- gunakan surat-menyurat dalam bahasa ada Melayu.
pejabat menjawab hendak menghabis- kan surat yang di-chap lama, ia-itu bahasa Inggeris, kalau di-tukar sama sa-kali pada satu2 pejabat tentu-lah tidak ada jawapan itu.

Jadi, kalau dahulu Tuan Yang di-Pertua, berhubong dengan kesihatan, saya juga berchakap mewakili pendudok di-kawasan saya di-Melaka Selatan yang hampir sa- ramai 50,000 orang di-Jasin tidak ada sa-orang pun doktor saperti yang di- laungkan oleh wakil PAS.

Ini saya berharap mendapat perhatian daripada pehak Kementerian Kesihatan.
Tuan Yang di-Pertua, berhubong dengan Kementerian Penerangan dan Penyiaran.

Kita tidak boleh menafikan tugas2 yang di-jalankan oleh Jabatan Penerangan.

Berhubong dengan pene rangan ini lebeh mustahak lagi kerana dalam masa kita menghadapi kon- ferantasi Indonesia ini.

Ra'ayat di-luar -bandar hendak-lah di-beri penerangan.

yang tidak jelas supaya kekeliruan berlaku.

Ejen2 Indonesia tidak dapat mengelirukan ra'ayat hanya fikiran dapat kita salorkan dengan melalui siaran daripada badan penerangan ini.
Dari itu bagi pehak Kementerian ini saya merayu-lah pada membanyakkan tiap2 lori2 penerangan supaya dapat ini, kampong menerima penerangan umpama-nya sa-bulan sa-kali, tetapi dalam kawasan saya kadang2 sa-sabuah kampong itu sampai 4-5 bulan baharu ini datang.

dapat badan penerangan Tuan Yang di-Pertua, dengan ada-nya tambahan yang ini tentu-lah beberapa berkehendakkan pegawai lagi.

Ini tentu-lah ada dalam ma'aluman Kementerian Penerangan.
rayukan saya Tuan Yang di-Pertua, saya beraleh kapada Ranchangan Perumahan.

Ran- changan Perumahan juga bagi pehak kawasan saya di-Melaka Selatan me- rayu pada Kementerian yang ber- kenaan, kerana umpama-nya dalam pekan kedai ada di-dudoki sampai 10 kelamin.

Jadi pendudok yang sesak bagini harap mendapat perhatian daripada Keraja an.

Tuan Yang di-Pertua, untok memberi peluang kapada orang lain, sa-kian-lah saya.

Terima kaseh.
Terima kaseh.

uchapan sa-buah sahaja Jasin Dato' Abdullah bin Abdul Rahman (Kuala Trengganu Selatan): Tuan Yang di-Pertua, saya wakil dari Kuala Trengganu Selatan suka menyertai dan menyokong usul yang di-majukan oleh Ahli Yang Berhormat dari Port Dick son.
Dari Titah di-Raja kita patut-lah berasa bershukor kerana walau pun negeri ini pada masa sekarang sedang Indo menghadapi konferantasi dari nesia dan negeri kita berada di-dalam keadaan tidak sa-bagitu menyenangkan namum pehak Kerajaan tetap berazam akan memberi keutamaan kapada ranchangan pembangunan ekonomi dan juga keutamaan meninggikan taraf pelajaran di-dalam negeri ini.
Sa-bagai sa-orang wakil yang me- nyebelahi Kerajaan saya sunggoh rasa bangga dan rasa bershukor kerana Kerajaan Perikatan telah membuat banyak jasa kapada ra'ayat jelata di- dalam negeri ini seluroh-nya dan telah menchapai sa-bagitu banyak kejayaan di-dalam masa yang singkat bagi faedah pendudok2 di-dalam negeri ini.

Ahli Yang Berhormat dari Ipoh ada mengkecham Kerajaan berkenaan dengan ranchangan luar bandar yang di-jalankan oleh Kerajaan pada masa 451 21 MAY 1964 452 ini.
Saya tidak bagitu faham chachian2 yang di-limparkan oleh Ahli Yang Berhormat itu.

hidup Kita semua sedia ma'alum dan sedar bahawa walau pun telah banyak usaha2 tenaga yang telah di-jalankan oleh Kerajaan tetapi perbedzaan di- antara orang2 yang berada dengan orang yang tidak berada itu maseh berjauhan lagi.

Apa yang saya ma'ana, Tuan Yang di-Pertua, perbedzaan kehidupan—taraf di-antara orang2 miskin dengan orang2 kaya di-dalam negeri ini maseh jauh lagi.
Jadi patut-lah menjadi kesukaran kapada kita semua kapada pehak Kerajaan yang sentiasa berazam untok menghapuskan kemiskinan dan pen- deritaan di-dalam negeri ini.

Kita juga ada dengar perchakapan yang di- oleh Perdana Menteri keluarkan Singapura berkenaan dengan angin perubahan—winds of change.
Patut-lah Perdana Menteri Singapura sedar ia-itu winds of change atau angin perubahan ini kalau sesuai dengan Singapura di-mana kita dapati lebeh kurang satu million sa-tengah pendudok tidak sa- mesti sesuai dengan keadaan dan kehendak di-negeri Malaysia saperti Malaya, Borneo dan Sarawak.
Saya bimbang kalau banyak sangat di- pusing2kan oleh Perdana Menteri Singapura dengan angin perubahan ini, bukan akan menjadi satu perkara yang membena bahkan akan menjadi per kara yang merbahaya—perkara yang akan meruntohkan perpaduan yang ada di-antara segala kaum yang menjadi pendudok di-Malaysia ini.

Saya juga bimbang akibah daripada permainan dan perchakapan saperti ini yang di-keluarkan oleh orang2 di-Singapura akan membawa kita semua kaum2 yang ada di-Malaysia ini kapada jahanam.
Saya rasa Titah keadaan Uchapan Ka-bawah Duli berkenaan dengan azam dan keutamaan yang hendak di-beri oleh Kerajaan kapada ranchangan pembangunan ekonomi ada-lah sangat tepat sa-kali dan sesuai sa-kali dengan kehendak masa dan suasana di-negeri ini pada masa sekarang.

Saperti saya katakan tadi, walau pun telah banyak di-buat oleh Kerajaan di-merata2 tempat tetapi maseh ada lagi kita dapati penderitaan, pen- deritaan kita boleh lihat di-sini di-situ di-negeri Malaysia ini.
Khas-nya di- negeri Trengganu daripada mana saya datang kita maseh lagi dapat lihat penjajahan Sa-masa penderitaan.

dahulu kemajuan di-negeri itu telah ketinggalan; boleh di-katakan di- dalam segala lapangan baik di-dalam lapangan pelajaran mahu pun lapa lapangan ngan kesihatan dan ekonomi.

Maka ada-lah harapan saya Kerajaan akan memberi perhatian yang istimewa kapada kemajuan2 dan pembangunan di-sabelah Pantai Timor ia-itu di-negeri Treng ganu.
ekonomi juga Tuan Yang di-Pertua, di-dalam sa-sabuah negeri itu kalau kita ber- kehendakkan dan kalau kita chuba hendak menchipta satu bangsa yang sehat, satu masharakat yang bersatu padu, mesti-lah taraf ekonomi pen dudok2 negeri itu sebalek-nya sa- imbang di-antara satu sama lain.

Kalau perbedzaan terlampau banyak di-antara yang miskin dengan yang kaya, saya bimbang kita tidak boleh dapat menubohkan atau menchipta satu bangsa atau masharakat yang sehat dan boleh menjadi aman damai.
Daripada jurusan ini saya tidak faham pengkritek2 Kerajaan ran changan2 luar bandar dan ranchangan2 kemajuan yang lain.

Saya tidak guna- lah berchakap panjang berkenaan dengan gerakan2 luar bandar ini oleh kerana saudara saya daripada Ahli Yang Berhormat Pontian Selatan berchakap panjang berkenaan dengan perkara ini.
ranchangan di-atas telah Berbalek kapada pelajaran, Tuan Yang di-Pertua, memang-lah Kerajaan telah banyak berusaha dan membuat kerja di-dalam bahagian pelajaran ini dan telah mengeluarkan wang yang banyak tetapi sekarang maseh lagi kita dapati pendudok2 di-negeri ini tidak berpeluang mendapat pelajaran yang benar sempurna, sama ada di-sebab- kan oleh kemiskinan atau pun kekurangan wang.

Saya ketahui di- ulu2 di-Trengganu mithal-nya, ada kita dapati antara anak2 kita tidak mampu hendak pergi ka-sekolah.
Jadi di-sini saya minta-lah pehak Kemen- terian Pelajaran mengambil perhatian 453 21 MAY 1964 454 ulangan supaya dapat menyiasat lebeh lanjut berkenaan dengan persekolahan anak orang di-ulu2 di-negeri Treng- ganu ini.

Berkaitan dengan pelajaran tinggi pula, sekarang saya nampak, daripada di-Pertua, Tuan Yang lawatan2 saya ka-negeri2 luar khas- di-negeri2 Eropa.

Perbedzaan nya antara orang2 yang ada dan orang2 yang tidak berada terlalu jauh meng- tinggi.
Kita dapati ambil pelajaran hanya bilangan yang sangat kechil daripada orang2 yang tidak berada tinggi.

Jadi ini mengambil pelajaran pun menjadi saya.

Kalau-lah hanya kebanyakan orang2 bandar sahaja mengambil pelajaran tinggi walhal orang2 di-luar kawasan bandar hanya segulongan yang kechil sahaja mengambil peluang pelajaran ini boleh tinggi, kedudokan saperti jadi akan membawa suasana yang tidak sebagitu di-ingini.
kebimbangan bacha undang2 Jua kedudokan yang saperti ini boleh mengeluarkan banyak perasaan yang tidak puas hati di-antara pen- dudok2 negeri Malaysia ini.

Ahli Yang Benhormat dari Ipoh ada berchakap panjang berkenaan dengan pilehan raya dan berkenaan dengan rasuah atau corruption.

Saya bukan-lah hen- perchakapan Ahli dak menjawab Yang Berhormat itu, bahkan hanya sa-kadar hendak memberi pandangan atau membuat kenyataan.
Berkenaan dengan pilehan raya, Tuan Yang di- Pertua, ini perkara yang telah sudah, kalau Yang Berhormat dari Ipoh itu betul2 kesalahan pilehan raya tidak dapat tidak beliau itu akan dapati banyak perkara yang beliau boleh buat dan yang beliau kerani2 boleh pilehan tidak men- itu kalau jalankan kerja2-nya dengan baik dan jua terhadap sempurna.

pegawai2 Presiding yang menjadi Officer yang tidak menjalankan kerja dengan baik atau betul, dan seterus- nya kapada Returning Officer.
Kalau ada kesilapan atau kesalahan yang besar, perkara itu boleh di-bawa sa-hingga ka-Mahkamah Tinggi dan terpulang-lah kapada Mahkamah Tinggi membuat keputusan siapa yang betul dan siapa yang bersalah.

Ber- kait dengan corruption atau rasuah bertindak raya terhadap Bagitu lanjut.

itu ada-lah Ahli Yang Berhormat dari Ipoh telah menchachi Kerajaan dan polis berkait dengan perkara itu.
Nampak-nya Ahli Yang Berhormat itu berkehendakkan tiap2 perkara yang berkait dengan corruption mesti di-bawa ka-Mahka mah oleh pehak polis atau oleh pehak rasa, Tuan Yang Kerajaan.

Saya di-Pertua, patut polis ada sama meneruskan dengan penyiasatan di- dalam satu2 perkara yang di-adakan atau pun sama ada patut di-bawa ka-Mahkamah, terpulang kapada pehak polis.
Mithal-nya satu2 perkara itu tidak ada keterangan yang banyak, tidak dapat keterangan yang jelas atau terang, tidak mustahak dan tidak patut pehak Kerajaan atau pehak polis membawa case itu ka- Mahkamah.

Jua tidak patut mereka membuang masa dan tenaga membuat Jadi, saya ber- penyiasatan harap-lah kapada Yang Berhormat sa-belum membuat dari chachian sesuatu perkara sila-lah memberi pertimbangan yang jangan sa-wajar-nya dan berpatutan; hanya pandai membuat kechaman.
Sekarang walau pun sudah banyak usaha di-jalankan oleh Kerajaan ka- penganggoran arah mengurangkan tetapi harapan atau unemployment, saya ranchangan dengan pembangunan ekonomi yang sempurna lagi-lah pengang makin berkurang goran dalam negeri Malaysia ini.

juga ada Saya dapati di-Trengganu lagi orang2 yang maseh tidak dapat pekerjaan.
berharap dengan ada-nya keazaman daripada pehak Kerajaan untok terus menerus menghapuskan kemiskinan dan me- pendudok2 ninggikan di-dalam negeri ini penganggoran akan lenyap dengan chepat-nya dari satu masa ka-satu masa.

itu terhadap ada-nya Tetapi hidup Ipoh taraf saya suka Sekarang, Tuan Yang di-Pertua, saya sadikit juga menyentoh berkenaan dengan kedudokan scheme of service pegawai2 yang ada di-dalam Judicial and Legal Service.
Kalau-lah ada peluang-nya, kalau-lah ada ke- lapangan saya rasa elok-lah juga pehak Kerajaan mengkaji sa-mula scheme of service bagi pegawai2 kita yang ada dalam Judicial and Legal Service ini kerana saya sendiri pada suatu masa 455 21 MAY 1964 456 sekarang dahulu berada dalam Judicial and Legal Service dan saya melahirkan perasaan ini sa-bagai dari sa-orang yang telah mengalami jawa- tiap2 tan itu.
Sangat-lah mustahak sa-orang pegawai yang ada di-dalam Judicial and Legal Service itu men- jaga kehormatan-nya, dan maruah- nya, kerana sebab itu scheme of service atau pun pendapatan gaji mereka elok-lah kalau boleh di-kaji sa- mula.

Bukan-lah berma'ana sekarang juga Kerajaan mesti bertindak, fasal kita pun sekarang tahu Kerajaan sedang menghadapi konfrantasi.

Kera jaan sedang ada di-dalam kesukaran.

Saya katakan kalau ada kelapangan dan kalau ada peluang elok-lah di- Itu-lah sahaja Tuan kaji sa-mula.
Yang di-Pertua, rengkaskan uchapan saya.
saya Enche' Othman bin Wok (Singa pore): Tuan Yang di-Pertua, sa-telah selesai-nya pembukaan rasmi yang telah di-lakukan oleh Duli Yang Maha Mulia Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di- Pertuan Agong pada hari Thalatha yang lalu, saya pada mula-nya telah menganggap bahawa Dewan yang ini akan mula menjalankan mulia tugas-nya untok membinchangkan perkara2, atau masaalah2 yang akan kita hadapi bersama dalam masa lima tahun yang akan datang, tetapi sedeh-nya saya menyatakan di-sini, apa yang telah di-pertutorkan sejak Dewan ini bersidang, bukan-lah per kara2 baharu yang harus di-binchang- kan dengan chergas dan lanchar, ia-lah perkara2 sa-balek-nya tetapi yang telah di-sebutkan berkali2 dalam Dewan ini sejak pilehan raya tahun 1959 yang lalu.
Ada-lah menjadi tujuan saya hendak menyentoh banyak perkara yang telah di-sebutkan dalam Titah Uchapan Seri Paduka Baginda, tetapi, Tuan Yang di-Pertua telah pun mengarah- kan kami supaya jangan mengambil banyak masa Dewan ini agar Ahli2 yang lain berpeluang sama untok memberi uchapan masing2 dan oleh yang demikian biar-lah saya hanya di-beri menumpukan masa kapada saya kapada beberapa per kara yang tertentu.
yang Tuan Yang di-Pertua, saya terpaksa mengambil sadikit masa Dewan ini untok menjawab beberapa tudohan yang telah di-suarakan oleh beberapa orang Ahli yang ada di-hadapan saya sa-malam dan hari ini.

Saya rasa ada- lah menjadi kewajipan saya untok menjelaskan, atau menjawab tudohan2 itu supaya jangan semua Ahli2 yang ada dalam Dewan yang mulia ini kekeliruan.
atau telah menudai, Tuan Yang di-Pertua, sa-malam Ahli Yang Berhormat dari Hilir Perak dalam uchapan-nya telah menudoh konon-nya Parti Tindakan Ra'ayat ia- sa-buah parti dictator yang lah sa-olah2-nya memerentah dengan menggunakan kuasa kuku besi.

Ka pada Ahli Yang Berhormat itu, konon-nya Kerajaan Petir di-Singa- telah pura mengenepikan, atau tidak mengamal- kan sama sa-kali pemerentahan sa- chara democracy.
Untok pengetahuan- nya, biar-lah saya tegaskan di-dalam telah menjadi Dewan kenyataan yang tidak dapat di-napi- kan kemenangan Parti Petir di-dalam dua pilehan raya umum yang telah di-adakan di-Singapura ia-lah kerana dasar Petir yang democratic, social dan bukan komunis.
Kerana ra'ayat Singapura yang terdiri dari berbilang bangsa, hatta orang2 Melayu sendiri yang menerima dan mengakui dasar ini, maka itu-lah sebab-nya Petir telah di-pileh menerusi pilehan raya sa- orang satu undi untok memegang teraju pemerentahan sa-hingga tahun 1968. ini bahawa Tuan Yang di-Pertua, Ahli Yang Berhormat dari kawasan Hilir Perak telah juga menyebutkan soal yang sudah pun selesai, yang tidak harus lagi di-dalam Dewan di-kemukakan ini.
Beliau telah membangkitkan soal uchapan pilehan raya Perdana Men- teri Singapura yang konon-nya telah mensifatkan Yang Teramat Mulia Tunku Perdana Menteri sa-bagai sa- tidak ber- orang pemimpin yang calibre.

Perkara sa-benar-nya sudah pun selesai dalam masa kempen pilehan raya yang baharu lalu maseh berjalan lagi.

Perdana Menteri Singa pura telah pun menemui" Tunku Perdana Menteri dan menjelaskan ini 457 21 MAY 1964 458 sa-benar-nya.
Lebeh keadaan yang dari itu, Perdana Menteri Singapura telah meminta rakaman uchapan beliau yang telah di-rakam- kan oleh polis dalam perjumpaan itu ramai pilehan raya di-Seremban di-mainkan sa-mula dan di-semak.

supaya faham sa-tengah Kita semua tahu apa yang sa-benar- nya telah berlaku ia-lah timbul dari pemimpin2 salah MCA yang sendiri tidak faham bahasa China.
Saya rasa tujuan Ahli Yang Berhormat sengaja menimbulkan sa- mula soal yang sudah luput ini ia-lah sa-mata2 untok menaikkan sentiment sa-gulongan yang tertentu di-kalangan orang2 Melayu kita supaya benchikan Petir dan menganggap Petir sa-bagai sa-buah parti yang anti-Melayu.

Tuan Yang di-Pertua, tujuan yang ini ada-lah sangat mer- sa-umpama bahaya sa-kali di-dalam negeri ini yang mengandongi pendudok2 dari berbagai2 kaum dan ugama.
Sekarang biar-lah saya beraleh pula pada uchapan yang telah di-lafadzkan oleh Ahli Yang Berhormat dari Pon- tian Selatan.

Saperti yang telah di- lakukan oleh Ahli Yang Berhormat dari Hilir Perak, beliau telah meng- gunakan tactic yang sa-rupa.

Beliau telah menimbulkan soal2 lapok yang dalam telah kempen lalu, saperti orang2 Melayu di-Singapura taraf orang2 Melayu di- di-tekan, rendah2kan, orang2 istimewa Melayu di-abai2kan dan lain2-nya.
di-sebutkan pilehan berkali2 yang raya hak Keadaan orang2 Melayu di-Singa pura—ini saya tidak membandingkan di-antara orang2 yang bukan Melayu dengan orang2 Melayu—saya chuma membandingkan sa-belum Petir ber- kuasa dan sa-sudah Petir berkuasa.

Keadaan orang2 Melayu di-Singapura sejak tahun yang lalu ada-lah lebeh baik dan lebeh maju daripada sa-belum pilehan raya di-Singapura tahun 1959.

Kerana mereka pada istimewa, mendapat layanan yang lima 3231—616—16-2-65.
tunjokkan perubahan2 yang daripada maka itu-lah dalam pilehan raya yang telah di-adakan di-Singapura pada lalu, mereka bulan September yang telah memberi mandate sa-kali lagi kapada Kerajaan Petir untok meme- rentah Singapura sa-lama lima tahun lagi.

Kita dapat mengikuti bagaimana telah chepat-nya mereka sikap anti-Petir dalam tahun 1959 kapada raya sikap pro-Petir dalam pilehan yang tidak memaksa tidak menakut2kan mereka, mereka.
Mereka mengubah sikap dengan kerilaan mereka sendiri sa- serta mendapat sudah menyaksikan ranchangan2 yang nekmat daripada oleh Kerajaan telah di-lancharkan satu ma- Petir untok mewujudkan sharakat yang lebeh 'adil dan lebeh ma'amor.

Mereka mengubah sikap sa- telah merasa angin perubahan yang telah bertiup di-Singapura sejak tahun 1959. lalu.
Kita kita sana Baharu sa-bentar tadi, Tuan Yang di-Pertua, Ahli Yang Berhormat dari sa-belah telah menyatakan mungkin angin perubahan di-Singa pura itu tidak di-terima oleh ra'ayat di-Malaya.

Tetapi saya berasa besar hati mendengar beliau itu beruchap tadi bahawa dia telah sedar tentang merbahaya-nya, jikalau di-lambatkan lagi keadaan perbedzaan yang besar di-antara orang2 yang miskin dan orang2 yang kaya.

Ini juga telah di- sebutkan oleh kita dalam sidang Dewan ini pada bulan Disember yang lalu.
Saya rasa lebeh banyak orang2 di-sini yang faham saperti Ahli Yang Berhormat di-sana, lebeh lekas angin perubahan di-Singapura itu di-sedut oleh ra'ayat di-Malaya Mr Speaker: Panjang lagi?

Enche' Othman bin Wok: Panjang lagi, Tuan Yang di-Pertua.

Mr Speaker: Masa sudah sampai.

ini akan di-tanggohkan Meshuarat pada pukul 9.30 pagi besok.

Adjourned at 7.30 p.m.