Description
It was a diary that had first sat at the back of a locked steel cabinet for two decades and then in a taped box for close to another four decades. A secret diary kept by a Cabinet Minister of the discussions and decisions that went on behind the scenes and that determined the path of Singaporeโs political development during the late 1950s. It was a tumultuous time that saw the Peopleโs Action Party come into power because of the ineptitude โ or, in the words of Lee Kuan Yew, the corruption and stupidities โ of the Labour Front government. The diary was kept by Francis Thomas, an Englishman who made Singapore his home and who played a key role in the dying days of the Labour Front government. The Politics of Defeat is his inside story of those days.
ISBN:9789810961527
