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The Indian revolutionary leader Rash Behari Bose formed the Indian National Army with the help of the Japanese, who were highly successful in recruiting 20,000 Indian soldiers taken prisoner.
The Indian revolutionary leader Rash Behari Bose formed the Indian National Army with the help of the Japanese, who were highly successful in recruiting 20,000 Indian soldiers taken prisoner.
Lord Moran, Churchill’s physician, wrote: ''"The fall of Singapore on February 15 stupefied the Prime Minister."'' In particular, the surrender of the British and Australian troops bewildered him. ''"How came 100,000 men (half of them of our own race) were to hold up their hands to inferior numbers of Japanese? Though his mind had been gradually prepared for its fall, the surrender of the fortress stunned him,"'' wrote Moran. ''"He felt it was a disgrace. It left a scar on his mind. One evening, months later, when he was sitting in his bathroom enveloped in a towel, he stopped drying himself and gloomily surveyed the floor: ‘I cannot get over Singapore,’ he said sadly."''
== Notes ==
== Notes ==