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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."''
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 come 100,000 men (half of them of our own race) were to hold up their hands to inferior numbers of Japanese?"'', wrote Moran. Though Churchill had been gradually prepared for its fall, the surrender of the British fortress stunned him, according to 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."''
Military historians consider the capture of the Malayan Peninsula and Singapore among the Japanese Army’s greatest military victories. The fall of Singapore shocked the British public and changed the view of people in the British colonies that Britain was not invincible, as they previously thought. Hence, calls for independence were made everywhere after the war with the backing of the former British colony, the United States. That was marked the beginning of the end of the British Empire.
== Notes ==
== Notes ==