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Retiree Patrick Ng, 72, who was also at the event, recalled the conviction with which Mr Lee delivered his speeches. Then aged 19, he would wait eagerly for the broadcasts on Radio Singapore. He said: "Mr Lee is a very effective orator and I listened attentively to every one of his talks." The speeches made quite a splash because Mr Lee named names and revealed much about the communists' workings, said Institute of Southeast Asian Studies visiting senior research fellow Leon Comber.

The young should read this book and understand what was at stake, why and how we stayed the course, then the reprint would have achieved something. Before it is too late, younger Singaporeans should also speak to the remaining members of the pioneer generation who lived through those times, in order to get an appreciation of our past. This is a generation that believed in me and my "Old Guard" colleagues because they saw us stand up and fight back against the communists and later the communalists.

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