The Japanese did not attack a single Netherlands outpost, but the Dutch knew there was no permanency to this, and they went straight to work,

To U.S. homebodies, the field where U.S. soldiers were giving their lives (see p. 16) seemed the most urgent. But to the Allied strategists, there was no more important battlefield than Malaya. On that battlefield Singapore was at stake. At Singapore the future of the Allies in Asia was at…