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Albatross file — Wikipedia (en)

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  title = {Albatross file — Wikipedia (en)},
  howpublished = {Wikipedia (en)},
  url = {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albatross_file},
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The Albatross file is a series of documents covering the period leading up to Singapore's separation from Malaysia in 1965. Compiled by Singapore's finance minister Goh Keng Swee, the file includes papers by the Cabinet of Singapore, confidential memoranda and Goh's handwritten records of his discussions with Malaysian leaders. Although the prevailing narrative holds that Singapore was abruptly and unilaterally expelled from Malaysia by the federal government, the file's documents reveal that as early as 1964 and especially after the racial riots that July, confidential talks regarding Singapore's constitutional rearrangements in Malaysia had commenced between Singapore's People's Action Party and Malaysia's Alliance Party, which eventually led to Singapore's separation. In a handwritten note, Singaporean prime minister Lee Kuan Yew formally authorised Goh to engage in discussions with Malaysian leaders, Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Razak Hussein and Minister of Home Affairs Ismail Abdul Rahman in early 1965, laying the groundwork for an eventual and orderly separation. Over the course of the year, both sides coordinated discreetly to ensure that when Malaysian prime minister Tunku Abdul Rahman publicly announced Singapore's separation, the process would be presented as a fait accompli that could not be obstructed by popular resistance or pro-merger sentiment, which had remained significant at the time. Goh compiled the file in mid-1964. While the original file was initially thought lost in 1979, it was recovered in 1982. Goh referred to it in a 1996 interview with military historian Melanie Chew when the merger with Malaysia was discussed, and some material from the file was subsequently cited in Goh's 2007 biography. A few of its documents were showcased at the National Museum of Singapore in September 2015. In 2023, the Government of Singapore announced that the papers would be declassified and released to the public, with a permanent exhibition launched at the National Library in December 2025.

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Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Albatross file» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albatross_file
Wikidata Q137195757: «series of documents and notes on Singapore's separation from Malaysia» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137195757
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albatross_file?action=history).
Licenza: Creative Commons Attribuzione-Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Il riuso richiede attribuzione e stessa licenza.
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