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Stand & Fight. The Allies were planning joint conferences and staff talks to plan a little grand strategy of their own. For the present they could only stand and fight to hold Singapore, to keep the Burma Road open, to maintain the U.S. life line to the Orient, to fight off any new attacks that came. For the present, Russia was helping more by attacking the German Army than it could by entering the war against Japan (see p. 14). If the European end of the Axis launched such an all-out attack in the Atlantic as the Japanese had launched in the Pacific, the U.S. might soon be fighting for the Azores and even Iceland. But if the bastions of Allied sea power held against assault, the Allies could then turn to the offensive.