text: 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 .
  
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  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 .