heri- tage and in younger days an ardent Communist (jailed the British), a prominent union activist, and, ulti- mately, a loyal supporter of the Peo- ple's Action Party who survived Lee Kuan Yew's purge of the PAP'S pro- Communist wing in 196 1.
Singapore was not built by the overly meek, the studiously consis- tent, the scrupulously virtuous. In his One Hundred Years' History of the Chinese in Singapore (Murray, 1923; Univ. of Malaya, 1967), Song Ong Siang quotes Sir James Brooke, writing only...