{"id":125,"date":"2011-10-09T10:43:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T14:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/?p=125"},"modified":"2011-10-09T10:43:44","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T14:43:44","slug":"february-15-1942-fall-of-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2011\/10\/09\/february-15-1942-fall-of-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"February 15, 1942: Fall of Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_581\" style=\"width: 317px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/files\/2011\/10\/photo_surrender_singapore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-581\" class=\"size-full wp-image-581\" title=\"photo_surrender_singapore\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/files\/2011\/10\/photo_surrender_singapore.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-581\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lt. General A. E. Percival surrenders at Singpore<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Kux, <em>Estranged Democracies<\/em>\u00a0(1993).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing 10 days after fall of Singapore, the Senators reported to Secretary of State Hull, requesting that: &#8220;India be given a status of autonomy&#8230;.The only way to get the people of India to fight was to get them to fight for India.&#8221; (qtd. from FRUS, vol. I, pg. 606-07)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hess, <em>America Encounters India<\/em>\u00a0(1971)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>in combination with Chiang Kaishek&#8217;s visit to India, India&#8217;s situation attracted attention of the press, the State Department and Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and caused Roosevelt to raise the India issue with Churchill again (35)<\/li>\n<li>Walter Lippmann urged the United States to take more responsibility in the Asian theater of war<\/li>\n<li>Berle (asst. Sec. of State) wrote a memorandum following the Fall suggesting the U.S. outline a political settlement between India and Britain (36, FRUS, vol. 1, pg. 602-04)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kux, Estranged Democracies\u00a0(1993). at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing 10 days after fall of Singapore, the Senators reported to Secretary of State Hull, requesting that: &#8220;India be given a status of autonomy&#8230;.The only way to get the people of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2011\/10\/09\/february-15-1942-fall-of-singapore\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39568],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-timeline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}