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Sparks of nationalism 2

Last updated 15 July 2025

This page was first published on 29 March 2015.

“We in Malaya are now seeing British domination after over a hundred years enter its last phase. Colonial imperialism in Southeast Asia is dead except in Malaya, and our generation will see it out.”

– Speech at Malayan Hall, 28 January 1950