Tunku was tireless in his efforts to integrate the various races and work out compromises in order to maintain harmony.
TUNKU Abdul Rahman (1902-1990) was a figure who rightly belongs to our present age – one who could reconcile liberalism, conscience and magnanimity while possessing power.
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