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Lim Kim San's opinion about his old comrade - LKY - seems to be
quite clear :
Originally posted by kilua:
The peers who described Goh Keng Swee not a visionary, who are
they?
And If GKS is not a visionary, who is? LKY?
Maybe You might want to hear what Old Guard Lim Kim San had to say
about LKY.
http://www.singapore-window.org/sw00/001205aw.htm
But bottom line, what does Lim really think of his old mate, Lee
Kuan Yew? Some whisper that Lim, like other "old guard" leaders Toh
Chin Chye, Ong Pang Boon, Jek Yeun Thong and Devan Nair, is sour
toward Lee for the way he always insisted on being No. 1. The talk
goes that Lee was lucky to catapult straight into the premiership
since it suited his talent for oratory, vision, and
strategic thinking. Had he needed to deal with the nuts
and bolts of running a specific ministry, he might have come a
cropper.
If Lim shares this view, he keeps
it to himself. Publicly, he says that without Lee's
leadership, Singapore "would probably be like a third-world country
now."
crop·per2 ( P ) Pronunciation Key (krpr)
n.
A heavy fall; a tumble.
A disastrous failure; a fiasco.
Will the truth ever be
known ?
This is typical of an old comrade returning the favor to LKY for
the generosity of the long period at the helm of SPH.