FUTURE OF SINGAPORE
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) CANBERRA, Aug. 14. The British Conservative Party leader (Mr Edward Heath) today suggested fivepower use of the giant Singapore naval base, declaring: “Our friends are imploring us to stay.”
Mr Heath said in Canberra that the Singapore Government should lease the base to a consortium consisting of Britain, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. A Tory Government, he said, would resume Britain’s military presence in Asia, and he added that a leasing of the Singapore base to a joint force would be “genuine and practical proof of the determination of these five governments to co-operate in defence.”
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31758, 15 August 1968, Page 15
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