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‘Cocked Hats and Swords and Small, Little Garrisons’: Britain, Canada and the Fall of Hong Kong, 1941

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2003

Kent Fedorowich
Kent Fedorowich
Affiliation:
University of the West of England, Bristol
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Just days before the outbreak of war in Europe in September 1939, the Foreign Office in London received a letter from Ian Morrison, late Honorary Attaché to the British embassy in Tokyo, who was returning to the United Kingdom via south China. For the past month, Morrison had been enjoying the allure of Hong Kong. Astounded by the bustle and ‘ever-fresh beauty’ of this prosperous corner of empire, one of the first impressions upon his arrival in the colony was its remarkable isolation.

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Research Article
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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , February 2003 , pp. 111 - 157
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© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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