Winston Churchill speaking of the costly victory at Singapore. Under the incompetent leadership of Lord Commander Osman Ali-Khan, the 2,000 men of the Republican Japanese garrison, starved and outnumbered, managed to kill nearly 15,000 Indian troops before being wiped out to the last man. Following the defeat, the mertiocracy process adopted by the rest of the Empire was finally introduced in the Raj, and the quality of Indian officers skyrocketed. This was one of the most humiliating events of the Anglo-Japanese colonial war of 1944, and is mentioned little throughout the British Empire to this day.
"If you want to be humane and not just give the bare minimum to the party that medically requires it, then yes, there should be both." - Shiro Ishii
Shiro Ishii of the Japanese Communist Party, who wrote about Japanese communist doctrine
"Ouch. Not."