3. The Japanese Invaders

• The key to survival was improvisation.
• vivid insights into the behaviour of human beings and human societies, their motivations and impulses.
• however you made money, the most important thing was how to preserve its value by changing it into tangible goods

5. My Cambridge Days

• Knowledge and the possession of technology were vital for the creation of wealth.
• such an egalitarian system each individual would be more interested in what he could get out of the common pool than in striving to do better for himself,

9. The World of the Chinese-educated

• lack of economic opportunity turned their schools into breeding grounds for the communists, who had been burrowing away in Malaya and Singapore since 1923,
• like recruiting police cadets in mafia territory, a hazardous business.

10. Enter the PAP

• when you lose, you have to be defiant, to keep up the morale of your supporters, to live and fight another day.

11. Round One to the Communists

• Leninist preconditions for a revolution: first, a government that no longer commanded the confidence of the people, and second, a government that had lost faith in its ability to solve its problems as growing lawlessness, misery and violence overwhelmed it.

13. A Fiasco in London

hoi polloi,

14. Exit Marshall, Enter Lim Yew Hock

pro forma.

15. Three-quarters Independent

He was an actor, but not consistent in the roles he sought to play.