Edited by cmf_shalom at 15-1-2020 11:47 AM
Korang tengok sendiri kedekut tahap tahi idongnya Singapura...Banding pula dengan Sabah/Sarawak..
In this top secret memorandum, Mr Lee analysed the situation and effects. He noted: “When the Tunku first informed Keng Swee in December last year (1964) of his desire to have Singapore ‘hive off’ from Malaya, it generated considerable excitement amongst us first because this showed their realisation that we cannot be fixed in Malaysia and the supremacy of Malay communalists assured forever.”
But he was also aware of the potential benefit of such a situation, and wrote: “Next, it gave us an escape, if there is to be trouble in Malaya with communal clashes over language and other issues. We might in such a rearrangement insulate ourselves from communal conflict which is building up in Malaya.”
Lee wrote that the “greatest attraction of this rearrangement is our hope to get the benefits of all worlds – the common market, political stability with economic expansion, and autonomy in Singapore without interference from KL (Kuala Lumpur). The picture of a prosperous and flourishing Singapore doing better than the rest of Malaysia is most attractive”.
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