Lee Kuan Yew: The Crucial Years contains practically everything that Lee Kuan Yew, first prime minister of Singapore, has said politically since his student days at Cambridge to 1970. The account ends in 1970 when Singapore was faced with a gloomy prospect – the withdrawal of British troops
Lee Kuan Yew: The Crucial Years contains practically everything that Lee Kuan Yew, first prime minister of Singapore, has said politically since his student days at Cambridge to 1970. The account ends in 1970 when Singapore was faced with a gloomy prospect – the withdrawal of British troops in 1971, and the necessity of creating a credible defence force. To provide a background to his speeches, there are chapters on the Malays, Chinese and Malaysia.
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