Devan Nair

摘要

As prisons go, the one in which Devan Nair found himself in 1951, on St John's Island off Singapore, was not a bad place. The island itself had white beaches and coral reefs, not that he saw much of them. Inside the walls was a well-stocked library. Prisoners were allowed radio sets, though they were tuned only to Radio Singapore, and contact was easily kept, through corruptible warders, with subversive elements in the outside world. They were also allowed lawyers. One was Lee Kuan Yew, who gradually came to take over both Mr Nair and Singapore.