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YOUNG MAN
IN A HURRY
MAY BE SINGAPORE'S FIRST PM
By DAVID T. K. WONG
Singapore.
David Marshall, the first Chief Minister of Singapore, called him a young News man in a hurry, Reynolds called him the brightest Socialist in Southeast Asia. He is loved and hated by soma.
He is Chinese, but he makes much of being a Malayan. He is Western-educated, but he declares that his son shall never have a Western education.
He believes in parliamentary democracy, but he makes it plain that if he had to choose between colonialism and Communism he would choose Communism.
ond
The name of this enigmatic education is one of the reasons
controversial man is Lee 1 am in polllles today. Kuan-yow. His friends used to call him Harry Lee, but since has entering politeal life he
sked them to
the "cut out Hurry."
The Cruellest Man
Alive Lies
וון
Gravely III
Crown Princo At Badr
37 WOMEN
TEND IMAM
ROME. "Big Turban,” the Imam Ahmad of Yemen, cruellest man alive, is seriously ill.
He is lying on cushions on the floor of a clinic with a
brought on by years of drug-taking.
three wives, 26 concubines and dectors from Yemen with him eight women slaves.
a
nervous disease
This absolutė monarch has doctors and members of the
He ascended his thrano ky 1048 brought to Rome an entourage royal household to pass.
after his father, the Imam of more than 100, Including The Imam brought four Yahya, had been assassinated.
Solidly bullt, black-bearded, thrac Italians and one Franco with a thin, cruel mouth, hook- Rumanian.
ed nose and piercing black eyes, They have now been Joined Ahmad soon wiped out anyone by Professor Gozzano, Dean of who dared oppose his claim to the Faculty of Neurology and the vacant throne. Faychiatry at Rome University.
sido the city which they
They are in a hotel just out- have iransformed into " passable imitation of a Yemeni harem.
They travel to the clinia in huge American cars to stiend to their ford and master.
All the women observe
purdah and not one has been seen unveiled.
"When I read Nehru I under-strictest stand what the Indians aro tolking about and what Nehru 1 cry meant when he said: when I think that cannot
I
the
Sa no outsider will see them, they dine alone.
and
the
comcu-
They are having a difficult Head on pole
time with the king, who is nocustomed to his own WAY
In all things, because their Among them was the former treatment depends for Ita mie- Imam's first secretary, Abdullah cess on putilar him to sleep Al Wazir. with narootles for about three weeks.
wives The three mam's Ave favourile
The wily, 66-year-old Imam ja bines have their meals in their objecting violently to this idea rooms and the others occupy a because he is terrifled it may be has a similar lament curiained-off Lee
CORNIFT ta the part of a plot to depose him. Although he has an amazing | dining-room. Trasp of the English lanEUAES
Lee is the Secretary-general speak my mother tongue as well of the left-wing People's Action as I can speak English." Party (PAP), the only political party which will be contesting all the 51 constituencies in the elections under a naw May 30 constitution.
All present indications are that the PAP will secure at least an absolute majority of the seats to form the Arst government. If that happens, Les is certain to be the first Prime Minister
self- of governing Singapore. That will be
mean hchievement for a man who only 36.
is
Lee was born in Singapore and educated at Raffles College and Cambridge. where he double first in law, He scored
is married to a lawyer who abso takes an active part in politica! life. In fact the couple went through both Raffles and Cam- bridge logether.
Explaining why he entered political life instead of devoting his time to his highly successful law practice, Lee said:
"
Language
Their own servants walt
on
of
Ho was put in chains and exhibited to the populace bo- fore his head was cut off. The head was then fastened to pole and sizung up
minido the Temeal Ministry He thinks he might wake up
Health for several days. to find his son, Crown Prince
of Thirty-five
his alleged Al Badr, has seized the throne associates were also executed, and, with the support of Preal- as later were at least two οι dent Nasser of Egypt, proclaim- Ahmad's brothers. In the clinic, where the black- ed himself the new Imam.
The reign of terror to which bcorded king lies lossing and The Yemen, a kingdom baked Yements are now resigned in- Su fur, Lee has been as suc-
muttering on his mattress, two dry by the desert sun, la
of the cludes punishment
civil cessful in politics Ds ho has been in
guard most primitive of all Arab.offenders by chaining them to a the legal profession.hawkfaced Araba stond
Imam his room with drawn countries-and the outside He has
has public pillory or strapping them been able to knit the
curved dwords, allowing
on their backs to donkeys. only' deliberately kept it so. TAP into the most tightly dis- elplined party In Singapore's inngled political scene.
he has been taking paina to them and cook their food. They learn Mandarin in order to steep on the floor;on pillows or electlamaliTOSSOS. be able to address rallies in Mandarin.
are
There
inner party stripples for power, to be sure, but outwardly the PAP presents a united front which stands out in marked contrast to the achiams and spitts other parties.
petty aquabibies, plaguing
But though Lee and the PAP enjoy mass appeal, they are feared and distrusted by vested Interesis.
Adultresses Stoned
The penalty for adultery by a woman is death by stoning.
The Imam keeps power within his own handa to such an extent that every entry visa granted to a foreigner and they are very by him few is approved personally.
Once a foreigner Is in the country he may not leave with. out the Imam's permission.
Big business feels, with some justification, that the PAP is on the side of the workers and that An archeological expedition had been went to
a PAP An
government would cur- led by a young American, Wen- Engilsh school so that I would tall opportunities for large pro- dell Phillips, obtained par- be equipped to attend an Als by demanding more ameni-mission to excavato the ancient English univerally and be ties for employees.
eity of Marlb, belleved to have. been the Queen of Sheba's capital
come un
educated man, the equal of ax Englishman, the model of perfection,
"I don't know how far they have succeeded, but my. Engilsh
BY • THE • WAY •
by Beachcomber
THE New York Board of mission to drink within certain
Education, evidently - hours at the Coin des Mercanti pressed by recent occurrences or Au Rendezvous des Raries a Narkover, lus a plan to take will end by infecting milk-bars. The fingerprints of leachers. The Trois Vacher will advertise At Narkover, of course, inost. Lalf in coloured lights, and un- of the masters prints have boon der striped umbrellas, protecting takun before they begin their the Jeunesse doree from the scholastle carcers; usually in lethal London sun carefree connection with some unconven- flaneurs will hold their glasses tional activity or other which of Snabbozene, up to the light, or has involved" them with the discuss the merits of a 1959 police, I read that most of the Poopstboola. American teachers object to the Astounding revelation plun. A few of the more prig- gish Narkover masters, who had that powerful magic to which we are by now pecus- kept clear of trouble, made a
tomed a Gallup Poll has dis- elmilar objection. "If you are
the amazing covered
fact. Innocent," said Dr Smart-Allick,
hitherto
that unsuspected, "which i hesitate to bellove, you
"very few people are prepared have nothing to fear. If you are
nuclear gulity, the traditional machinery to pay the price of a of the school will be set in mo- war on the question of Berlin," Lion to establish your
In Capsule-spotters on the nocence,"
Fichtre!
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alert will!
bren
NAPSULE - SPOTTING FPONENTS of the wicked
dispiaco engine- Continental Weekday are spotting. A reward bas disturbed by the cafes and res offered to anyone who finds the Discoverer II taurants with saucy French capsule of the
*satellite, How long will it be names which are springing up all over London. The wild before lost-properly offices are where bits that have galety which
comes from, per set up.
fallen off rockets can be de- posited until claimed? We may the read advertisements -papers.........
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-(London Express Service).
No heaven
As a result there has been a fight of capital from Singapore across to the Federation- of Melaya and if this trend con- ilnues Singapore will find itsel in a serious position.
Lee has sought to stop this Trend by reassuring those with capitul.
by
to
The Imain "offered" her quar- Any woman who dares look at the direct ters in his karem his guest, another man risks It was an offer which could not punishments. be refused without the risk of punishment.
So she moved in with the 200 women he keepa and lived among
them with her children for tour manis.
Escaped
Like ali Yemenis, the Imam has always chowed the Intoxicating leaves olled qat.
He took to morphine as well when he began to suffer painful
aribritis.
Eventually his addiction was so strong that his European doctors warned him that unless
The Imam dictated her life, order her to work in she took treatment he would die. hospital and permitted her to kes her husband only while be was there,
casy
Knowing that in his weaken- ed state he would bo an torget for any enemy his death, he agreed to came to
Rome.
desiring
Hampered
They finally escaped together suspicious by briting someone with a car Yemenis-toy... discovered. s-
“to drive them across the border Speaking only Arable, he in- plot which ́threatened their
into Adon.
himself lives
farend and were
sisted on surrounding escape zeno the
with people he trusted and border.
Every woman, she sald, had, would not leave his women bo- teaving behind 200.000 dol her own cubicle furnished in hind. face-worth-of-equipment. Arab style with carpets and
named
More recently a Scotswoman cushions piled together to form
Rita Nasir returned to a bed. "The PAP is not promising | England with a fantarile story workers heaven on earth, of her semi-imprisonment. Nor, an 'our polfiical enemies allego, are we going to živo Married to an Arab, she had employers Kell on earth.” ha i gone to Yemen with her hus quid.
band, who had a job there.
"Our guiding principle is in- dustrial peass with justice.
"The PAP hos said that social justice means evening out gross Inequalities of wealth. This we shall certainly do.
to
"Employers who are ready meet the legitimate and just dénianda of the workers und those who are prepared to recognise that workers too yearn for some of the good things of life have nothing to fear from a PAP government.
"But we shall not tolerate at- tempts by employers to get the maximum out of the workers in return for minimum pay." Same conditions'
Many blg employers already see the handwriting on the wall and they know what Lee means by the good things of life."
They have adjusted their thinking accordingly and are now granting local employees who do the same work as Euro» peans the mmo working condi- one as Europeans in terms of pay, homo leave, pald pRIFRED to England and so or
Leo
Others are vainly hoping that and the PAP and thmir brand of Bociatia will quickly | disappear like a had dream.
For them it seemed a fright- OnG ening experience, for not
But had been to Europe before. *They
women," are happen
they need not have been ap- she said. "They change their prehensive, for even from his clothes two or three times a day sickbed, the Imam is a despot and spend a good deal of time and their purdah is as strict in making their own things," Rome as it is in the Yernen.
The
Imam of
Yemen
...ta bli country
Woman who commila adultery is aloned to death.
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