For all his militancy, [James] shared Carr-Saunders’s view that the social function of the university was to develop a united, non communal and self-governing Malayan nation and, as general secretary
Read more…22nd November 1949 : Became A Member Of The Student Council
“I helped in the founding of the newspaper called the Undergrad. I was the production manager. My brother George, Federal Judge Wan Suleiman, Beda Lim were the original editors. At
James was issued his citizenship papers for the Federation of Malaya.
That year I, without anybody’s prompting, …I stood for secretary of the [student] union and I won it. James became a member of the Executive Committee of Raffles College Union.
“When I went to the university, it was a completely placid place where the English-educated, future civil servants and teachers, would never say boo to a goose.“
James enrolled in Raffles College in 1948. Picnic And Activities at the Beach Student Life Rugger XV As later noted in the Special Branch report, James was a keen rugby
James returned to Malaya at the request of his father. “My father got fed up and he asked me to come back…..It is in India that I recognised that I
“I had gone there [India] as an Indian nationalist. I had become vaguely sympathetic to the Communist. No, I didn’t have any Communist associations. Romesh Chandra I’ve met him. He
Read more…27th February 1948 : Federation of International Democratic Youth
Celebrating the first year anniversary of the R.W.A.C. at the I.T.F Grounds in Calcutta. His Excellency C. Rajagopalchari, the acting Governor General of India and Dr. Saboth Mitra were both
The creation of India and Pakistan as two independent dominion states along religious lines led to the largest human displacement and migration and a refugee crisis. James as a member
