Churchill and the Lion City

Acknowledgements

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS One of the more pleasant customs of scholarship is to acknowledge, with thanks, the many people who helped make it possible to publish this book. This is particularly true for a volume combining the efforts of several scholars, such as this one. The symposium which produced this volume, and the book itself, were the result of the initiative and generous support of Professor Tan Chorh Chuan, President of the National University of Singapore, and Sir David Wallace, Master of Churchill College of Cambridge University. Professor Barry Halliwell, Deputy President (Research and Technology) at NUS, kindly opened proceedings and lent his support. Allen Packwood, Director of the Churchill Archives Centre, and Tan Tai Yong, Vice-Provost (Student Life) at NUS and proud alumnus of Churchill College, launched the project and drove it forward. Ang Cheng Guan and Jonathan Haslam made welcome contributions to the symposium. Shirley Koh provided administrative support. The Centre for the Arts at NUS was an excellent venue for our proceedings. Volunteers, always essential for such a project, truly helped this one; to Angeline Chui, Pang Yang Huei, Tan Chye Guan and Tan Kia Lih, thank you. The book enjoyed strong support and careful reading from two anonymous peer reviewers, for which I am grateful. John Coates generously allowed me to use his outstanding maps from the atlas for which we are all in his debt. NUS Press, led by Paul Kratoska, did its usual excellent job producing the volume; Eunice Low pulled it all together very efficiently. I have been lucky in my projects over the years at NUS to enjoy strong support from my dean and head of department, and Brenda Yeoh and Yong Mun Cheong provided just that, which is much appreciated. I am even luckier to be working in the Department of History at NUS, with colleagues who, as always, were there to be counted on. But in a book such as this one, the editor is only one member of a team of scholars pursuing a common interest. The project and the book are only as strong as the team. This one was a pleasure from start to finish and my deepest gratitude is to my friends and fellow authors, who produced such strong and interesting work. On their behalf, I am pleased to direct whatever royalties this book generates to the good hands of the ix x Acknowledgements The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund for needy schoolchildren in Singapore. May it help some of the next generation to follow us to podium and print. Brian P. Farrell Singapore 18 February 2011 ...