SINGAPORE PRESS CONFERENCE - SOUND

the only conclusion we can draw from the rejection is that Her Majesty's government considers a melon appointed by the Federation of Malaya a less reliable protector of British interests in Singapore than a petition appointee up to that point I think everything was clear cut mr. Marshall said in very picturesque language about Christmas puddings and aspects awesome led person gentle sorted in mobile subjects of that nature that he would have nothing to do with it well I'm not as from Brandon auditors mr. Marshall but I generally agree was the attitude of rejection attitude of refusal to move from our stand which he in quite an emotional outburst demonstrated after the conference but now today you have speculation of different works new proposals for compromising settlement I think the London Times this morning said that a pap was not appointed to this new moose they can take it official from the PAP that we will be no party to any such madness this is not the way to conduct the affairs of a country if there was to have been a compromise or some solution arrived at between the two opposing points of view that should not be done before the break down before the outbursts before the cries and the chairs and the weeps and the heart-rending the people of Singapore must think but all this is just man we will be not party to this madness we took the decision to stand firm after very careful consideration we still believe we are right whoever goes on with this compromise goes it alone if the British government has said she wants for how to free a 4 out of 7 in the defense and Security Council which will promulgate all these laws and regulations on London and that's the principle she is not gonna budge from and I think mr. Leonard's board statement in the house and his answers to questions yesterday made it quite clear that he is not budging from there and that was a principle we rejected which layers they leader the delegation from the People's Action Party what's your view on the way things are turning at the moment by the way things are turning at the moment are you referring to this rumor kite-flying of new talks yes I am well I think it's man 48 hours ago we after very careful consideration beside them we had to stand firm and I still think we're right and I still stand firm and to you know jump about within 48 hours or 24 hours yes just the height of irresponsibility why do you think this possibility of new talks has arisen what for that I think you need a psychoanalyst to fathom the minds of those who decided to have a new talk within 48 hours or 24 hours of deciding that they were right in rejecting the offer what's your view of what the delegation should have done you mean after the breakdown of the talk I think they only decent respectable any self-respecting politician could have could have done once to have gone back to the people of Singapore one place the case before them and if subsequently be it three months six months nine months or a year it is possible to find a way out and the British government shows that it is in fact relenting from the stiff and firm standing objects that it must have the last word on the defense and Security Council which is going to decide what are matters of internal security and what are matters of internal security which it is going to override in its imperial interest then we can talk again would your party be inclined to take any part in new talks if they should open depends upon the circumstances I think very difficult for me not say in six months time what the conditions would be and won't be moves from the British government would be I mean in London at the moment in long another one absolutely impossible there is nothing that has happened in the last 48 hours to make what we thought 48 hours ago well we still believe that what we thought was right and if that is so how can we start new negotiations I understood you to say in your press conference that any party which did get involved in these new talks should they open would be finished can you explain them you know if I were mr. David Marshall chief minister of Singapore with the command of pictorial phrases I would say today is the day of humiliation for Singapore if I were a citizen of Singapore I would feel humiliated disgrace that people in Roma have reposed my trust and confidence could act in this way and make fools of me do I understand you to say then that you think it better to get home to Singapore now and start new talks in the future and leave behind the possibility of some solution being found now well how we as responsible adults let alone politicians in charge of the destiny and future of an Ireland of a million lot of people develop at about 20 24 hours we say this is the liberal fascism this is the Christmas pudding with cosmic sauce and you do a lot about doubles on a saw and say a but after all you really I didn't mean let's talk again if there should be an election in Singapore's mr. Mossler suggested on his resignation that would be your party's platform so these are matters which I don't think I'm entitled to express personal views they will have to be decided by my party executive after careful consideration of my report to them on the events of this birthday commission and I'm sure the decisions arrived at would be those which my Atlantic believes to be in the interests of the country what they would be in detail I don't think I'm in a position to say at the moment thank you very much in the industry you people of Singapore we came to London full of hope full of faith in the justice and the reasonableness of the people of England I believe the people of England are with us but we met a government whose ability was concentrated in the head and who had no heart to see the justice of our desire for human equality nor the good sense and the imagination and the courage to recognize that that they can only keep their interest in Singapore if they were to seek to be friends with us through proper cooperation I cannot tell you how hard we have struggled so much we have hoped and how deeply sorry we are to have failed I ask of you to have courage and to believe that though there is a section of England that considers the people of Singapore must remain slaves as so long as they require Singapore as a base for the so-called free world refusing freedom to us there are other people in England and it may well be our travail will be short-lived if we have courage if we have unity and if we maintain our basic decency and seek evolution to freedom through peaceful methods people of Singapore in this era that is the death of a great opportunity I still say Matt Decker

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Length: 10min 58sec (658 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 21 2015