ABSTRACT
Chapters two and three showed how, from the early 1940s, Malaya and Singapore’s defence came to be seen as linked to Indochina. In the early 1950s, however, with the French persisting in the fight against the Viet Minh, Indochina had not seemed in immediate danger. Britain had then been able to concentrate resources and planning on its own territories, and its hopes on French stamina and reforms. 1954 was to end such hopes.
