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BOGAARS, George Edwin The Public Service, Accession Number 000032


  • Oral History Centre
    Source
  • 30
    Total Reels
  • Robert Chew Yew Hock
    Interviewer
  • 15:00:10
    Total Running Time
  • English
    Language


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Metadata

  • 3 Jul 1980
    Recording Date
  • 00:30:59
    Running Time
  • MP3
    Format
  • For background information only
    Conditions Governing Access

Synopsis

*His involvement with Dr Goh in People's Kitchen, which was organised by Department of Social Welfare. His impressions of Dr Goh Keng Swee. His working relationship with Kenny Byrne. Formation of Administrative Service Study Group (ASSG) by Bogaars, Leembrugen and Thiruchelvam. Dissolution after eight months. Its membership. Extent of government's awareness of activities of ASSG. His assessment of People's Action Party (PAP) as leftwing radical party.

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Metadata

  • 11 Jul 1980
    Recording Date
  • 00:30:50
    Running Time
  • MP3
    Format
  • For background information only
    Conditions Governing Access

Synopsis

*Pay cut in Civil Service and establishment of Political Study Centre in 1959. Reasons for pay cut; impact on Civil Servants. Reasons for restricted recruitment of administrators before 1959. Rationale for formation of Political Study Centre. Course content. George Thomson chosen as Director. His evaluation of courses conducted.

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