Learn history through objects of diplomacy

The stuff Bond movies were made off in the pre-internet age. At left is a Gretacoder 805 which sends out messages to an RP-805 readertape (right) which punches out encrypted messages. The Foreign Ministry’s top secret communication was transmitted in this manner until 1999.

THROUGHOUT history, there have been many diplomatic feats. The admission of the Federation of Malaya into the United Nations in 1957. Tun Abdul Razak Hussein’s visit to China in 1974. The Look East policy which gave birth to our national car.

But among all, the greatest of them was the negotiation that won Malaysia’s independence.