Word: yew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political campaigning, bright with electric signs spelling out two messages: "You must vote" and "Your vote is secret." Last week, in elections for the first government of the State of Singapore, the left-wing People's Action Party swept 43 of the 51 seats. Chief Minister Lim Yew Hock, 44, the able young trade unionist who established peace in the island after the bloody 1955 riots by jailing half a dozen leaders of the P.A.P.'s Communist wing, failed utterly in last-minute efforts to unite the moderate and right-wing parties in a "grand coalition to stop...
Fight the Whites. Leader of the victorious P.A.P.-and Prime Minister-elect -is fiery Secretary General Lee Kuan Yew, 36. A wealthy, golf-playing Singapore Chinese of the third generation, who gained a prized "double first" in law at Cambridge University, Lee campaigned in shirtsleeves to "restore the dignity" of Asians and to "fight against the white man." He saluted his election triumph as "the liberation of the poor." His party's first act, he said early in the campaign, would be to release the Communist-liners now in custody. He also demanded eventual closing of Britain...
Last week Singapore's Chief Minister Lim Yew Hock, whose usual concern is fighting the Communist penetration of Singapore's overseas Chinese colony, declared the gang wars to be a state emergency, and asserted the government's right to hold young gangsters up to two years without trial. Even the Communist party-liners in the Legislative Assembly made no objection to this stern remedy. Police, under the new edict, promptly rounded up 80 gangland suspects...
Further, reported Wilson, Chou said he had told the leaders of Singapore, "Mr. David Marshall and later Mr. Lim Yew Hock, that he hoped Singapore would, on achieving self-government, remain in the British Commonwealth., He had sent a similar message, through friends of Tengku Abdul Rahman, to Malaya." What was Chou's explanation for this attitude, since it was his Communist agents who, by riot and civil war, had noisily sought to drive the British "imperialists" out of Malaya? "In his view," reported Wilson deadpan, "for these countries to remain attached to their ancient allegiance would...
...this is mighty upsetting to Robert Taylor, the kid's big brother. "I wanted him straight," he sighs, "that's all. But he was rotten leather and he came apart." So in the end it's brother against brother, but as they say down Texas way, "Yew kin saddle the wind, but yew cain't ride it." Taking the bitter with the better, Saddle the Wind is a pretty good western. Rod Serling's script is intelligible, and Actor Taylor has acted in enough horse operas to appear at ease on a horse...