Six weeks after the Singapore elections, Lee Kuan Yew requested my presence at Rumah Temasek.
“Harry kept me waiting for more than an hour and Harry knows that is one thing that irritates me. Harry came down and said, ‘James, I am very sorry about being late, I have very little time, I am catching a private plane to Singapore. I have 10-15 minutes with you, I am sorry about it.’
“He told me about how he had bet with Lark Sye and he had won a golf bag. I understood that he had come to boast about his victory even though he kept it low-key and never mentioned the election.”
“Then he said, ‘Look james, let me help you. My colleagues in the Federation Government are saying that I am supporting the Communists by employing your wife.’ I said, ‘Harry, that is entirely a matter between you and your civil servant, nothing to do with me. You want to sack, sack her. You want to keep her, keep her. It is a matter entirely for you.'”
“He told me about how he has seen her and how he has done this for her and that for her and all that. He said he wanted to help me if I can write a letter like the one I wrote from Changi, he would pass it through his Special Branch to the Federation Special Branch and get me released. I said that it was not necessary.”