The leaders of the independence movement and the elite leaders of Singapore's economic construction had been students in Britain at a time when British anticolonialism had enjoyed a very close relationship with socialism.
原來領導獨立運動及帶領經濟建設的新加坡精英分子，大多早期留學英國，而當時英國的的反殖民主義與社會主義關係密切……。