This alliance was described by Lee as a marriage of convenience, since the English-speaking group needed the Chinese-speaking pro-communists' mass support base while the communists needed a non-communist party leadership as a 'smoke-screen' because the Malayan Communist Party was illegal.
Denna allians beskrevs av Lee som ett resonemangsäktenskap, eftersom den engelskutbildade gruppen behövde prokommunisternas stöd bland massorna, medan kommunisterna behövde en icke-kommunistisk partiledning som rökridå eftersom Malayan Communist Party var olagligt.