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membentuk Malaysia.
plan a peninsula union was to be created. Comprising the nine Malay states and the
memasukkan Singapura.
masalah penduduk china banyak di Singapore akan melebihi orang2 Melayu di Tanah
Melayu tetapi apabila Borneo dan Sarawak masuk masalah tersebut dapat diatasi
“ By 1941 the Malays were already outnumbered in their own country: 1.9 Million
Dengan kemasukan Borneo jumlah orang Melayu akan bertambah melebihi 4 juta
“ If the Borneo territories were added to the associations, the total 3.7 million Chinese would
be outnumbered by some 4 million Malay from the Federation and another 200 000 from
Singapore, the addition of the Borneo territories would add another 176 000 Malays mainly
from Sarawak and Brunie and 700 000 indigenous people North Borneo”
Semasa percubaan penubuhan Malayan Union (MU), pengasingan
Singapura telah mendapat kritikan dari pelbagai pihak seperti akhbar dan
parti politik.
“ Singapore’s exclusion from the Malayan Union evoked only subdued criticism
from newspapers, like The Straits Times, Malayan Tribunes and Singapore Free
Press and “feeble Moves” from newly form and still struggling political parties”
“ The more important point is a psychological one. If Singapore is included in the
union from the outset it will established itself as the centre of union afraid the Malays
would have to be sensation while they have felt and resented in the past, or being
governed from an alien city. If however Singapore is in the early stages excluded
from the Malayan Union is placed at Kuala Lumpur in the Malay states, the
evaporation of the Malays in making the union a reality will be much easier to
obtain.”
Lee Kuan Yu berpendapat penyatuan Singapura dalam gagasan Malaysia akan
POLITIK
untuk Singapura.
“ the mobility to achieve independence for Singapore on the other hand would
put the PAPs own political survival at risk. Since the 1959 self-governing
constitution was due for review in 1963 with independence as the most logical
step.”
Selain itu, dari sudut politik, penyatuan Singapura dengan PTM dapat membantu
persekutuan”
in Malaya”
Rakyat Singapura akan dikekalkan kerakyatan sebagai
selain di Singapura.
dalam keselamatan.
“Singapura needed the federation to provide a bigger common market for its
manufactured goods”