Word: shenton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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News dispatches contained evidence of incredible complacency. Five days before Singapore fell, the local authorities announced their intention to build air-raid shelters. A.P. Correspondent C. Yates McDaniel overheard a telephone conversation in which the manager of the Singapore radio asked permission of Governor General Sir Shenton Thomas to blow up the station because the Japanese were so close. Sir Shenton demurred; the situation was not so bad, he said. So the station went on broadcasting. Very soon, he wrote, in the midst of an admonition to keep fighting, the station went ominously dead...
Almost as the words were spoken by Singapore's Governor Sir Shenton Thomas, the fast moving Japanese piled ordeal upon ordeal for the besieged island...