Churchill Said we Should not Fight for Hong Kong

Now Churchill said right from the very beginning we should not fight for Hong Kong, declare it an open port, but then they thought that would affect the Chinese people you know and the Indians, East Indians. They would feel let down by the British giving up a major port without a fight so it was a toss up. It was a kind of a gamble lets say. But I think that, now Churchill said as they say the war cabinets apparently over-ruled him to a point and they did ask the Canadian Government, King, went along, the top Canadian, Crerar I think he was. And there’s another one too. They were all wrong and what’s get me is they had this ex-governor brigadier somebody or other, supposed to have been there, saw what it is, he told the Canadian Government a whole bunch of lies, that the Japanese couldn’t fight, they couldn’t fight at night, they hated this and that and they couldn’t fly, all this kind of crap. It was all stupid then anyway so maybe the Canadian officers thought it was no danger. But I don’t think the Canadian government should have sent us over the way we were. If we were a well-trained battalion, okay if we’re going over to fight let’s know what we are doing. But we weren’t in that position of course so by and large the boys were at it for 25 years more, they increased the pension a little bit and finally we had this doctor down in Prince Edward Island there and he worked on it for awhile and finally they did come across and give us a proper balanced pension. Now I will say now that I feel with the situation the way it is, that the Canadian Government have treated our troops, our Canadian prisoners of war, better than most countries in the world. I really do.