CO 1030/650: Release of detainees under new Constitution of Singapore. Secret
01/01/1959 - 31/12/1959
Newly elected PAP Government led by Lee Kuan Yew is anxious to release detainees. Eight, including Devan Nair, were released as soon as the elections were over and four more immediately after that, in early June 1959. By September the Singapore Government wished to release most, if not all, of the 40 remaining detainees. The Government in Kuala Lumpur is still critical of the Singapore government's whole approach to Communist subversion and may oppose any further releases in the Internal Security Council. Detailed analysis of the thinking behind the policy of release; objective of quelling the power of the Communists through political and psychological methods rather than by the traditional police action of arrests and detentions. Negotiations between Malaya and Singapore conducted by the British on these issues.
CO 1030/650
NAB 1573
English
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