Alexander Arthur Josey (3 April 1910 – 15 October 1986)[1] was a British-Singaporean journalist, political writer and commentator, biographer, and during WWII and the Malayan Emergency,[2] a propagandist.

He returned to Singapore after its independence from Malaysia and became Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew's Press Secretary for 10 years, and biographer and public relations officer.

Although planning to return to England due to the high cost of his medicine, he died aged 76 on 15 October 1986 at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore.

[9] He was a keen collector of books and papers of historical interest on cycling,[9] his collection archived at the University of Warwick library.

[11][better source needed] He was briefly lent by the Air Force to the Palestine Government to look after their public relations, but when the work ended he returned to England.

[citation needed] He briefly worked in Paris for Jackie Lane, the Secretary of the United Nations[dubious – discuss].

According to Josey, it was because he put on the radio the strikers' arguments (strike in 1951) for the first time which infuriated the British colonial people, and amused Lee, which sparked their friendship.

[12] In July 1952, Josey along with Dr Goh Keng Swee and Kenny Byrne formed the short-lived Council of Join Action.

It was widely believed that the banishment was served because of his association with then Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew and his articles critical of the Malays and the Federal Government.

He left Singapore on 20 July 'without undue fuss'[13] and was credited as the first foreign correspondent to be expelled from either colonial Malaya or an independent democratic Malaysia.

to be an attempt by extremists in the Alliance to slow down the Malaysian Malaysia movement, and an attack on the People's Action Party leaders.

By 1985, crippled by the disease, he planned to leave Singapore for England to live with his sister as his royalties barely covered his medical costs.

The papers also include Josey's articles on Lee Kuan Yew, Malays, Lim Chin Siong and other political detainees.