101pp – File contains wire agencies' reports on the Dutch Labour Party’s (DLP) bid to expel the People’s Action Party (PAP) from membership of the Socialist International (SI) and the PAP’s response to the move. The DLP had accused the ruling PAP of human rights violation, especially detention without trial, to which the PAP rebutted that the detainees were Communists who refused to renounce the use of force to seize power. Documents include (a) PAP's Secretary-General Lee Kuan Yew’s letter to SI chairman exposing DLP’s move to expel the PAP, the motives behind it and the actual situation in Singapore (b) Radio and Television Singapore’s news reports on PM Lee’s letter and the subsequent resignation of PAP from Socialist International (c) Transcript of the press briefing by Foreign Minister S Rajaratnam and Culture Minister Jek Yuen Thong on PM’s letter (d) Transcript of BBC’s interview with journalist Alex Josey and (e) Reports by foreign news agencies (e.g. Reuter) on the episode.
1976
SBC 375 - 06
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