“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 that time I had a little talent in collecting money. So I went to my friends in Johor Bahru government service. So I brought this money back and we published the first paper.”
“I think the first person who got me involved in anti-British League politics was P.V Sharma. Before that, Devan Nair had met me at a dance – university, some occasion – and said to me something, that they had a group discussing things. Would I like to join? I was not very enthusiastic. Later Sharma asked me to go for a drive one evening and in Farrer Park he stopped and pulled a piece of paper from his shoe. It was a little tissue paper like publication.”
“…..a Malenkov lecture on how many million boots they produced and how many times they produced. And I couldn’t see the importance of any of these things. But they’re risking life and limb circulating these things.”
“I remember one in particular. Malenkov addressed the Supreme Soviet. Then he’d [Sharma] give it to me and he’d say, ‘ Circulate it among your friends.”