Modernisation and Media Attraction-Anglo-Malaysian Relations

industrial and military colossus, but into a gigantic' debating society, welded to every conceivable species of socio-political activism. The thrust of the debate was the imper- ative of social transformation. These highly charged political debates with their extensive organisational networks at all working class, institutional and social levels, flourished over the years as never before, or since. Hence they were anathema to the British ruling class and certainly to a true blue Tory such as Air Marshal Harris, but by the spring of 1944 suppression or deviation of the 'subversive