Word: yew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When outspokenly anti-Communist Lim Yew Hock took over as Singapore's chief minister nearly two years ago, many of the colony's more responsible citizens thought the worst was over. Chief Minister Lim moved firmly to break up Communist infiltration of Singapore's Chinese middle schools, responded to a wave of Red-inspired riots by jailing a hot-eyed Communist agitator named Lim Chin Siong...
Despite Chief Minister Lim Yew Hock's best efforts, the People's Action Party last month managed to win 13 out of 32 seats in Singapore's first municipal elections, while Lim Yew Hock's Labor Front Party could salvage only four. This victory enabled the P.A.P. to install a Malacca-born, Australian-educated Chinese named Ong Eng Guan as mayor. P.A.P. Boss Lee Kuan Yew continues to insist loudly that his party is non-"Communist. But Mayor Ong is less committal. Asked if he thought Singapore was threatened by Communism, Ong replied...
...city goes, so goes the colony, since an estimated 75% or more of the colony's 1,500,000 inhabitants live within the city's limits. Elections for the colony's Legislative Assembly are only seven months off. Last week the chairman of Chief Minister Lim Yew Hock's Labor Front Party declared defiantly that his campaign will be fought on an out-and-out anti-Communist platform. What did he think of his chances of success? "Bleak," said the Labor Front Party chairman...
...business, and is separated from the new nation only by a half-mile-long causeway. Singapore, which is due to get local autonomy in 1958, would like to become part of Malaya-a prospect which leaves the Tengku at best lukewarm. Singapore's energetic Chief Minister Lim Yew Hock (who a fortnight ago ordered the arrest of 35 of the colony's top Communists and offered paid one-way trips to Red China for anyone who wants to go) has done an effective job of combatting the Reds in Singapore. But if Singapore...
...work. When you sit down in the President's chair, he works all the time. No idleness ... He has to work nearly 18 hours a day, and then he can't get all the work done ... I had a very good time being President of the Yew-nited States, and I guess I worked as hard as anybody ever did at any job.¶"The original flag of the President, made for President Wilson in 1916, had four stars on it. When I went to Potsdam, I found a general* with 28 stars on, and I came back...