 Complete the following phrase:  On 7 December, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Soon afterwards, Hughes criticised the British government for their weakness in the Far East and declared that they were living on fast-fading gleams of British triumphs in other wars. However, in February 1942 he said that Britain has temporarily lost control of the seas but she has lost it in an effort to protect Australia. It would be well if those who criticise Britain would turn the searchlights on Australia. In August he criticised the defensive strategy of the Allies in the Pacific but after the 