MALAYSIA COMMISSION IN SARAWAK AND PROTEST MEETING. (1962)
1962年馬來西亞委員會在砂勞越进行调查面对抗議集会。
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Background:
A FIVE-MAN COMMISSION HEADED BY LORD COBBOLD, FORMER GOVERNOR OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND, ARRIVED IN KUCHING, SARAWAK, FEB 19, TO BEGIN A TWO-MONTH ENQUIRY INTO PUBLIC OPINION ON THE PROPOSED MALAYSIAN FEDERATION UNDER WHICH THE BRITISH TERRITORIES OF SARAWAK AND NORTH BORNEO ARE TO BECOME MEMBER STATES ALONG WITH MALAYA AND SINGAPORE. BRITISH PROTECTED BRUNEI IS ALSO CONSIDERED FOR INCLUSION IN MALAYSIA.
（由英格蘭銀行前行長科博爾德勳爵率領的五人委員會於1962年2 月19 日抵達砂拉越古晉，開始對擬議的馬來西亞聯邦计划進行為期兩個月的公眾意見調查，根據該聯邦计划，沙撈越和英屬領土將建立馬來西亞聯邦。 英國保護的汶萊也被考慮納入馬來西亞。）
THE COMMISSION MEMBERS WERE MET AT THE AIRPORT BY THE GOVERNOR OF SARAWAK, SIR ALEXANDER WADDEL, AND CHIEF SECRETARY, MR. F.D. JAKEWAY.
WITH LORD COBBOLD ARE: THE FORMER GOVERNOR OF SARAWAK, SIR ANTHONY ABELL; FORMER CHIEF SECRETARY OF MALAYA; SIR DAVID WATHERSTON; GOVERNOR OF PENANG, DATO WONG POW NEE; AND SECRETARY OF MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF MALAYA, MR. MOHAMED GHAZALIE.
THE MEMBERS WILL TOUR NEARLY 3,000 MILES BY LIGHT PLANES, TRAIN, MOTOR BOATS AND DUG-OUT CANOES AMONG THE SCATTERED COMMUNITIES OF DYAK, IBAN, CHINESE AND MALAYS TO GATHER THEIR VIEWS ON MALAYSIA.
ON THE FIRST DAY OF THEIR VISIT TO KUCHING, THEIR STARTING POINT, THE SARAWAK UNITED PEOPLE'S PARTY HELD ONE OF THE BIGGEST MASS RALLIES TO OPPOSE MALAYSIA. NEARLY 7,000 PEOPLE GATHERED AT THE PARTY HEADQUARTERS TO SHOUT "WE WANT INDEPENDENCE". THERE WERE PLENTY OF BANNERS.
（在訪問起點古晉的第一天，砂拉越人民联合黨舉行了最大規模的反對馬來西亞的群眾集會之一。 近7000人聚集在黨總部高喊「我們要獨立」。 有很多橫幅。）
THE RALLY WAS OPENED BY MR. ONG KEE HUI, CHAIRMAN OF THE S.U.P.P. WHO STRESSED THAT IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE TO ACCEPT THE MALAYSIA PLAN BEFORE THE PEOPLE OF SARAWAK WERE ALLOWED TO MANAGE THEIR OWN AFFAIRS.
（集會由王其辉先生宣布開幕。 王其輝，是砂拉越人民联合黨主席，他強調，在砂拉越人民被允許管理自己的事務之前，不可能接受馬來西亞的計畫。 ）
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