因为这样做无利可图，无论是1959年还是1965年 李光耀的人民行动党都是打着社会主义旗号，迎合当时亚非民族独立运动潮流的，当然不会选择英联邦王国这种留有殖民统治色彩的政治体制，新加坡国旗的五颗星，据李光耀说，都是为了迎合新加坡华人希望和五星红旗有类似元素而设计的。当然李光耀上台之后就改弦易辙了
马共代表性人物呀。
而且李光耀自己在英国读书的时候就读过马克思， 他马克思理论分分钟飞起知乎所有大v。 这种共产党属性的结合，能接受英女皇吗
这是光耀同学在1964年的speech，他后来不走共产党路线才让英国人惊讶加跌眼镜
There is no sadder commentary how Singapore used to fight Communism
than the broadcast made by the former Director of Special Branch, Mr. Khaw
Khai Boh. As a professional anti-Communist he has done well for himself. He
wangled expatriate abolition terms giving himself a few hundred thousand dollars
compensation and a pension, all by persuading the former Secretary of State for
the Colonies that this life and career was in jeopardy because he was a special
branch officer. Even without waiting to see whether the Communists won in
Singapore and before the general elections in 1959, he picked up is abolition
terms and quit.
The government's chief adviser on how to fight the Communists and
Communism could have shown a little more loyalty and courage to the cause for
which he said he was pledged to serve.
Mr. Khaw Khai Boh has now joined some cranks in the S.F. saying that
the word "non-Communist" is vague and equivocal. One must either be a proCommunist,
or anti-Communist. This was what a former American Secretary of
State, John Foster Dulles, said. He denounced as morally wrong Nehru's
neutralist stand in the conflict between the East and the West. But his views did
not prevail in history. It was Nehru and Nasser during the acute East-West
conflict of the late 1950s who rallied the Afro-Asian nations on a non-aligned,
non-Communist stand. Afro-Asian national interests did not necessarily coincide
either with the West led by the Americans, or the East led by the Russians. So
they refused to pledge their support beforehand to either side. They formed a
non-aligned group of non-Communist nations. Their stand each specific issue in
the East-West conflict was decided by the merits of each case and by where their
national interests lay. Nehru and Nasser were the first non-Communists in an
Afro-Asia where the anti-Communists were Chiang Kai Shek of Formosa, Ngo
Dinh Diem of South Vietnam and Sygman Rhee of South Korea.
The anti-Communist
The anti-Communist is a person who is anti the Communists in everything
the Communist does, whether it is right or wrong, good or bad. So Mr. Khaw Kai
Boh is anti-Communist in this way. So he recently denounced the PAP has a neo-
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Communist party because we are also competing against the Communists for
mass following and support for what he calls "pandering to mass emotions". In
other words, in his view, because the Communists try to win mass support by
manipulating mass emotions, therefore the anti-Communists must be against this
technique. Hence, the MCA does not worry about mass emotions with the result
that today they have got no mass following.
Non-Communists, more effective
"Non-Communist" means that internationally we are not committed either
to the East or to the West. Internally, it means what it says, not Communists.
Like Nehru and Nasser, we have no hesitation in countering the Communists
within our country.
Mr. Khaw has made two astonishing propositions about the PAP First, that
it is still Communist at heart, second it is still under Communist influence. He has
not given any evidence to support this. But for his position as former Director of
Special Branch, Singapore, his statement would not have drawn any comment.
The simple answer to Mr. Khaw is that the Director of Special Branch, Malaysia,
the Inspector-General, and the Minister of Internal Security do not think so. If
they did, then they would have been guilty of a reckless breach of security in
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giving the Singapore government crucial information regarding Communist
activities and Indonesian saboteurs, information which led to the arrests of over
30 saboteurs in just four months ago in December 1963.
Communists know who can fight them
The people who are best qualified to judge who counter the Communists
effectively in Singapore are the Communists themselves. And they preferred the
SPA/MCA to win in Singapore as against the PAP. They knew that these
SPA/MCA types like Tun Lim Yew Hock and other now wealthy professional
anti-Communists would have meant insensitive and crude policies which would
have swelled the ranks of the discontented and antagonised the neutrals, leading
to a collapse of the regime. They hated the PAP because they knew we knew
them and their tactics and could counter them. We are the only party whose
rallies they have disrupted. They know who can expose them. They have
experienced how we have countered Communism by intelligent economic and
social policies, whilst being sensitive and discriminating in security actions,
leaving aside the Chinese chauvinists and others manipulated by Communists and
tackling only the Communists
http://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/data/pdfdoc/lky19640421.pdf
新加坡在1959年实行内部自治，成为自治邦，并没有完全脱离英国统治，无法主导军事以及外交等事务，严格来说并非一个完全独立的国家。由于面临生存困境，新加坡在1963年正式摆脱英国人的管治，与马来亚、沙巴及砂劳越合并，成立“马来西亚联邦”。两年后，也就是1965年宣布脱离马来西亚成为独立国家，成为联合国成员国，完全掌控国家内政和外交的建设过程。
独立的很大一部分原因是对英国人不满+不信任
回到1942,当日本人入侵时，英国在人数优势情况下，数周即投降（同马来人一起），只有华人的抵抗还算比较有规模
令狐真策
新加坡在独立之前属于马来西亚的一部分，而马来西亚的元首并非英王，而是Yang di-Pertuan Agong （译作马来西亚最高元首，英文Supreme Head of Malaysia）。这个元首实际上是世袭制度的。