anchor: Though hampered by the peninsula's division into the States and the Straits Settlements, relatively conservative Muslim intellectuals and community leaders came together at the Pan-Malayan Malay Congress in Kuala Lumpur in 1939.
positive: Educated Muslims and community leaders were among those at the Pan-Malayan Malay Congress, despite the division of the peninsula into States and Straits Settlements.
negative: The division of the peninsula led to the general population refusing to attend the Congress in Kuala Lumpur.