Word: lees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Action taken in Singapore, said Lee, is an example of a better solution to a problem such as Vietnam. The Prime Minister explained that the British, finding that they could not resist both the Communists and the nationalists, allowed power to go to "the most competent of the non-Communist groups." He boasted that in a free ballot today the Communist would receive no more than 13 per cent of the vote...
...United States has missed its opportunities to withdraw from Vietnam and now must stay and fight, Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore, said at Harvard yesterday afternoon...
...stopped several times and you should have gotten off," Lee told an audience of 125 at the Dunster House Forum. He cited 1954, 1956, and 1961 as times when the United States could have refused to fight in Vietnam. The killing of Diem, Lee said, was America's last chance for withdrawal, in his view a "far better" policy at that time...
...Prime Minister said that he wants the Americans to leave Vietnam eventually. But now, he stressed, the United States must show strong military counterforce. Firm American resolve would probably make the North Vietnamese willing to negotiate, Lee said...
...urging continued American effort in Vietnam, Lee spoke of American long-range interest in a stable non-communist government...