Comment on Operation Coldstore

To make clear when I am presenting my opinion, and when I am presenting facts or other's perspective, or official records, I will post them separately.

LKY's "Fireside Chats" of 1961 is presented in a previous post. And this commentary came about firstly because a historian suggested that Operation Coldstore (1963) was politically motivated, and that there were no communists. Or something like that. And that LKY was a purveyor of fake news. Or something like that. Or that is what I was led to believe from a cursory reading of the confrontation between the Minister and the Historian.

Pre-Merger struggles with the Communists - Lee Kuan Yew's Radio Broadcast

From Sept 1961, Lee Kuan Yew had a series of "fireside chats" broadcast on Radio. It was his attempt to explain and persuade fledgling "Singaporeans" (I do not know if we were legitimately or even customarily called that at the time) why we should seek Merger with Malaysia.

The links to these "fireside chats" (that is not their official name, but I believe LKY patterned the series of radio talks on FDR's) are attached, with the first few lines of the transcript included (in blue), and then my summary. (The audio recordings are listed here.)

There are 12 fireside chats here.