In a very convenient timing when more Singaporeans are starting to actually pay attention to the nation’s historical accounts due to the expanding availability of alternative views and opinions, a book documenting former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s radio talks from 1961 The Battle For Merger has been re-printed.
Channel NewsAsia reports that Minister Teo was present at the launch event earlier today and made a rousing speech regarding the book and the pivotal period in 1960’s Singapore.
With the increasingly widespread catalogue of information from all sources due to open source libraries and the internet which may or may not cast Singapore’s beginnings in a favourable light, Deputy Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister Teo Chee Hean hopes that the The Battle For Merger will provide a “reality check” to revisionist views so that they can finally accept the truest account of them all.
The book, initially published in 1962, compiles the full, unedited transcripts of Lee’s radio speeches along with reproductions of material evidence including photographs and documents that assure that there was a “communist conspiracy to take power being played out over the merger issue” and that the communists were like, totally the bad guys.
The Deputy Prime Minister also took the time to make a not-so-secret allusion to the political exiles depicted in the recently banned documentary To Singapore, With Love by emphasising that other former communist party figures and supporters have settled in Singapore as non-exiles, but only after providing accounts of their previous unpatriotic activities to the security authorities.
Those interested in viewing the harrowing accounts of Singapore past external and internal battles can visit the special Battle For Merger exhibition at the National Library Building from Oct. 9 to Nov 30.
Photo: National Library Board Singapore Facebook page
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In a very convenient timing when more Singaporeans are starting to actually pay attention to the nation’s historical accounts due to the expanding availability of alternative views and opinions, a book documenting former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s radio talks from 1961 The Battle For Merger has been re-printed.
Channel NewsAsia reports that Minister Teo was present at the launch event earlier today and made a rousing speech regarding the book and the pivotal period in 1960’s Singapore.
With the increasingly widespread catalogue of information from all sources due to open source libraries and the internet which may or may not cast Singapore’s beginnings in a favourable light, Deputy Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister Teo Chee Hean hopes that the The Battle For Merger will provide a “reality check” to revisionist views so that they can finally accept the truest account of them all.
The book, initially published in 1962, compiles the full, unedited transcripts of Lee’s radio speeches along with reproductions of material evidence including photographs and documents that assure that there was a “communist conspiracy to take power being played out over the merger issue” and that the communists were like, totally the bad guys.
The Deputy Prime Minister also took the time to make a not-so-secret allusion to the political exiles depicted in the recently banned documentary To Singapore, With Love by emphasising that other former communist party figures and supporters have settled in Singapore as non-exiles, but only after providing accounts of their previous unpatriotic activities to the security authorities.
Those interested in viewing the harrowing accounts of Singapore past external and internal battles can visit the special Battle For Merger exhibition at the National Library Building from Oct. 9 to Nov 30.
Photo: National Library Board Singapore Facebook page
Read Also:
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