Singapore
Sir, —Your reference to “a return of democracy in Singapore” in your editorial is an intriguing one. What kind of democracy did you imagine Singapore has enjoyed in the past? The Preservation of Public Security Ordinance, introduced during the administration of David Marshall and retained by his successors, Lim Yew Hock and Lee Kuan Yew, to detain “political undesirables” without public trial has always been one major constraint to the practice of the WestminsterWellington model of parliamentary democracy. The other, of course, has been the proscription of the Communist Party from the political arena. Similar constraints, incidentally, exist also in Malaysia.—Yours, etc., F. G. TAY. October 13, 1972.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33047, 14 October 1972, Page 14
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