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A few months after Lee returned from the constitutional talks in London March 1957,the PAP conducted election of its executive council.Lim Chin Siong was still under detention and could not challenge Lee for the Partys leadership.Lims supporters,however,outnumbered Lees right-wing faction and were elected to the executive council of the PAP. The British through Lim Yew Hock. Who was by thenviewed as an altogether more compliant tool of the security apparatus,ordered the arrest of Lim Chin Siongs supporters,thereby securing Lee Kuan Yews continued control of the Party.... (from A Nation cheated by Dr Cheek Soon Juan)
Posted on: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 09:16:54 +0000

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