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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 38, Number 10. 22nd May 1975

7-5-75 — Pressures Will Build Up: Goh

7-5-75

Pressures Will Build Up: Goh

Singapore's Defence Minister Dr. Goh Keng Swee said that with the recent military disasters in Indochina, pressures through local insurgencies and other means will build up in the South-east states. Non-communists (ailed in Indochina because they and their allies did not understand the true nature of the communist. Their perception of communism was largely in lurid propaganda terms of good and evil, communists being regarded as destroyers of freedom, peace, prosperity and human dignity. Yet if communism is that bad, how was it able to produce in the Soviet Union a modern industrial state and China with an international renown within ten years. He said it is possible to formulate intelligent and successful counter measures by studying communism thoroughly.