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...Arthur Ernest Percival are thought to number about 125,000 Australians, Indians, New Zealanders, Scots, and Englishmen, all well equipped and rigorously trained in jungle warfare. They are not too strong in heavy equipment, except in the Singapore area, where there is plenty of artillery. Air Marshal Robert Brooke-Popham's R.A.F. strength was apparently shocked by the first blast, and consequently the Japanese at first achieved local air control in north Malaya. But from London it was announced that immediate reinforcements would be sent by way of a long-prepared chain of airports from the Middle East...
...pressure on Japan to come to a decision increased with each day that passed. Last week top-flight British Far Eastern officials conferred earnestly in Singapore. To Manila went Britain's Far Eastern Commander Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, to discuss Anglo-U.S. military plans with U.S. Far Eastern Military Commander Lieut. General Douglas MacArthur; U.S. Asiatic Fleet Commander Admiral Thomas C. Hart; and Brigadier General John Magruder, head of the newly appointed military mission to China. The Netherlands East Indies, which have denied oil to Japan, were sending oil to Vladivostok through seas theoretically dominated by the Japanese...
...lieutenant general. But as military top dog in the Philippines, he will carry a lot of weight in Far East conferences, in which he has long sat with such key figures as Admiral Thomas Hart, Commander of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, Commander in Chief of the British Forces in East Asia...
...breakup. Thin, chilly Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Eelco Nicolaas van Kleffens pointedly warned by radio that The Netherlands East Indies would fight whoever attacked them. "We wish to live in peace," he said, "but not at any price." With enthusiasm he quoted Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, Britain's Far Eastern Commander in Chief, to the effect that any attack across a line drawn from Singapore through the East Indies to Australia should be regarded as an attack against the entire line...
...politicians who had sold out to Adolf Hitler. Before he had arrived in Rome, the British, without losing a life, gave the Italian Navy its worst beating of the war. As he started for home he heard of ominous events in Manila. There Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, Britain's Far Eastern Commander in Chief, had conferred with Admiral Thomas C. Hart, Commander of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, and General Douglas MacArthur, U.S. military adviser to the Philippines-doubtless on the subject of Anglo-American defense against any move Japan may decide to make...