SARAWAK PLAN
EVENTUAL CONTROL BY NATIVES SINGAPORE, August 19. After his return from a 12 days’ tour of Sarawak the Governor-General of the Malaya Union (Mr Malcolm MacDonald) forecast a 10 years’ plan which would give Sarawak enough educated men to take over the eventual administration of the country. The plan would, under the colonial welfare scheme, aim at preserving the best characteristics of the two chief tribes, the Dyaks and Kayuns, while giving social services and im.proved' agricultural methods besides education. “It would be a tragedy if British colonisation broke down the existing civilisation of a happy, pleasant people and turned them into wretched copies of the white man as has happened to the Indians and in Canada apd America,” said Mr MacDonald. “There is still some opposition to the cessation of Sarawak, but it is dwindling as the fears of rapid changes as a result of the end of rule by the white rajahs are proving groundless.”
Mr MacDonald expressed the opinion that the oilfields in eastern Sarawak might become the most important in the British Empire.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24959, 21 August 1946, Page 5
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