COMMENT | The Holy Grail – national unity
COMMENT | The Holy Grail – national unity Modified17 Feb 2021, 11:28 pm A - COMMENT | When the Union Jack was lowered at the Selangor Padang at midnight of Aug 30, 1957, and the Malayan flag was raised in its stead, and the clock tower was ringing out a dozen bass strikes, I was barely seven years and a couple of months old, too young to fully grasp the significance of the occasion. Or know of the restiveness in Malayans after the war, chafing under colonial direction, the desire to chart our own course, leading to the communal cohesion to press for independence. That I learned from History...
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