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 ...

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 ...