A Sense of History: a select bibliography on the history of Singapore Home Table of Contents Back Next Singapore, 1955-1965: Self-Government, Merger & Separation Abrams, Charles ; Kobe, Susumu & Koenigsberger, Otto . Growth and urban renewal in Singapore: report prepared for the Government of Singapore. New York: United Nations Programme of Technical Assistance, Dept. of Economic and Social ...

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David Marshall Singapore's first Chief Minister IN 1927, a gangly 19-year-old with the looks of a matinee idol gave his first public speech at the YMCA. Referring to a Straits Times report that a member of the British parliament had called Singapore a pestilential and immoral cesspool , he knotted his dark bushy brows and, fixing his audience with a baleful stare, thundered: Who is responsible ...

23 April 1955. Workers of the Hock Lee Amalgated Bus Co, who were members of the pro-communist Singapore Bus Workers Union (SBWU) went on strike. They protested against the new work rosters and the formation of rival unions. The rival union, with 200 spare workers, was formed by the bus company to avert any possibility of strikes by the SBWU. The strikers attempted to stop the buses from leaving ...

By Lulin Reutens Lim Yew Hock 1914 - 1984 The man who led the all-party delegation that won internal self-government for Singapore was a leader who had power thrust upon him. When it became imminent in 1956 that Singapores first chief minister, David Marshall, would resign for having failed to gain full independence, Mr Lim Yew Hock told the press that he did not want the top job if he had the ...