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Last week Singapore's Chief Minister Lim Yew Hock, whose usual concern is fighting the Communist penetration of Singapore's overseas Chinese colony, declared the gang wars to be a state emergency, and asserted the government's right to hold young gangsters up to two years without trial. Even the Communist party-liners in the Legislative Assembly made no objection to this stern remedy. Police, under the new edict, promptly rounded up 80 gangland suspects...
Further, reported Wilson, Chou said he had told the leaders of Singapore, "Mr. David Marshall and later Mr. Lim Yew Hock, that he hoped Singapore would, on achieving self-government, remain in the British Commonwealth., He had sent a similar message, through friends of Tengku Abdul Rahman, to Malaya." What was Chou's explanation for this attitude, since it was his Communist agents who, by riot and civil war, had noisily sought to drive the British "imperialists" out of Malaya? "In his view," reported Wilson deadpan, "for these countries to remain attached to their ancient allegiance would...
...though Lim Chin Siong is still lodged behind the towering grey walls of Changi prison, his colleagues on the outside are still working untiringly to build up popular support for his People's Action Party. "Singapore," said a Western diplomat recently, "may wake up one morning soon to find itself with the first democratically elected Communist government in history...
Despite Chief Minister Lim Yew Hock's best efforts, the People's Action Party last month managed to win 13 out of 32 seats in Singapore's first municipal elections, while Lim Yew Hock's Labor Front Party could salvage only four. This victory enabled the P.A.P. to install a Malacca-born, Australian-educated Chinese named Ong Eng Guan as mayor. P.A.P. Boss Lee Kuan Yew continues to insist loudly that his party is non-"Communist. But Mayor Ong is less committal. Asked if he thought Singapore was threatened by Communism, Ong replied...
...Singapore city goes, so goes the colony, since an estimated 75% or more of the colony's 1,500,000 inhabitants live within the city's limits. Elections for the colony's Legislative Assembly are only seven months off. Last week the chairman of Chief Minister Lim Yew Hock's Labor Front Party declared defiantly that his campaign will be fought on an out-and-out anti-Communist platform. What did he think of his chances of success? "Bleak," said the Labor Front Party chairman...