A doctor in the house mahathir7/8/2023 ![]() SO: Did you have a great deal of scepticism, also, because your predecessors – as you say in your memoirs – were devoted to the Commonwealth and you felt that their attachment to it was misplaced? And to give it that name, it is, in a way, not being sincere. So, calling it ‘the Commonwealth’, that is common, when obviously wealth is not common then, I thought it was in the first place the wrong name. It belongs to only four members and the rest are poor. I wonder, Sir, if you could begin please by saying, what was your attitude to the Commonwealth when you became Prime Minister of Malaysia in 1981? Sir, thank you very much indeed for taking part in this project and giving us your valuable time. SO: This is Dr Sue Onslow interviewing His Excellency, Tun Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad, in Putrajaya on Monday, 12 th May 2014. ![]() MM: Tun Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad (Respondent) ![]() Secretary General of the Non-Aligned Movement, 2003. 4 th Prime Minister of Malaysia, 1981-2003, also acting as: Minister of Defence, 1981-86 Minister of Home Affairs, 1986-99 Minister of Finance, 1998-99, 2001-03. Practiced as a medical doctor before entering politics with the United Malays National Organisation ( UMNO) in the 1950s. Graduated from the University of Malaya, 1947. ![]() Born in Alor Setar, British Malaya (now Malaysia). ![]()
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