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Singapore: A Modern History
by Michael Barr.
Bloomsbury, 296 pp., £17.99, December 2020,978 1 350 18566 1 Show More
by Michael Barr.
Bloomsbury, 296 pp., £17.99, December 2020,
“... the freest and fairest in Singaporean history – which made the Labour Front leader, David Marshall, head of the local advisory board of what remained a British colony. The son of Sephardic Baghdadis, Marshall had been a Japanese POW in the mines of Hokkaido, and had Fabian connections in London. He proposed the ... ”