Datuk Onn Jaafar remains an interesting subject for the study of the politics and leadership of this country during its formative years.
HE IS perhaps best known for organising nation-wide protests against the colonial Malayan Union scheme in 1946 that culminated in the formation of Umno in May that year. Nevertheless, Datuk Onn Jaafar (1895-1962) remains an enigma.
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