Singapore correspondent : political dispatches from Singapore (1958-1962) /
Singapore Correspondent is a collection of eye-witness dispatches, sent from Singapore to London, of five years of Singapore's colourful political past. They cover a period of living turbulently and sometimes dangerously too. This was a time in the mid-1950s and early-1960s when Singapore was e...
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2012
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; NO CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY; BARE FEET IN SINGAPORE COUNCIL CHAMBER; COLONIAL BATTLEGROUND; AT THE CROSS-ROADS; CLANDESTINE ARMS DEALS; TOWARDS SELF-GOVERNMENT; CONSTITUTIONAL PROGRESS; PRACTICAL POLITICS; NO SITUATIONS VACANT; PRECARIOUS ECONOMY; CHINESE QUESTIONS; BLOW TO TRADE; MEETING POINT; "HONEST GUYS"; AIR THICK WITH ALLEGATIONS; ELECTION FEVER; SINGAPORE AFTER ELECTIONS; THE NEW GOVERNMENT; THE NEW BROOM; MONEY TROUBLES; GOVERNMENT GETS TOUGH; THE NEW BUDGET; QUALIFIED PLEDGES; CHANGING ISLAND; COLOUR BAR IN REVERSE; PAP RIFT. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Singapore's financial requirementsred shadows; pistol-packing ministers; grim economic prospects; artists and culture; trade union tension; singapore's "ong affair"; the tunku's visit; shock for pap; merger for convenience; labour unrest; chinese education in malaya; commissions active; malays and chinese brothers?; singapore decides; prime minister visits moscow; index; about the author; by the same author. | |
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