Lee Kuan Yew took to the radio is his campaign for merger with the Federation. However most of his campaign for merger was focused squarely on attacking the Barisan Sosialis and in particular Lim Chin Siong by painting them out as Communists. With the amount of evidence that Lee espoused existed to prove that his claims were true, there should have been easy to obtain a conviction. Yet none of those that were subsequently detained were allowed the defend themselves against the charges brought against them.