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Unlike his feelings about the Japanese people, Mr. Routledge expresses disappointment with the Canadian Government of the time that sent the troops to Hong Kong.
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The Canadian Government, with the kind of advice that they were getting at that particular time, and in spite of the fact that they were initially asked by Britain, Churchill, to provide some assistance to go over there, I think they, well, once again, it's revealed that Churchill changed his mind but was never able to change Mackenzie King's mind at that particular time. But it was an error in sending troops or allowing troops to go to Hong Kong, particularly the kind of troops we had available at that time, with all due respect to them, every one of them, ill trained, ill equipped, and you know, you, you hear individuals, even individuals who were in Hong Kong blaming officers and so on and so forth for some of the situations that they were, they were in. But it, it was nothing more than a big mistake sending people, ill trained and as untrained as they were at that particular time, for the possibility that war would, was likely.