AUSTRALIAN-CHINA

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 32, 8 February 1943, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN-CHINA

U.S. Paper Says "There Is Just So Much To Go Around" N.Z. Press Association.—Copyright Rec. 11 a.m. NEW YORK, Feb. 7. The New York Times, in an editorial article, recalls the cries for a second front which were heard in Europe last summer when the Russians held. Stalingrad by the skin of their teeth. "Now come similar outcries from Australia and China, the former of which is menaced by Japanese invasion and the second is pictured as near to economic collapse," the newspaper continues. "We do not minimise these dangers and admit that it would be a catastrophe of the first magnitude for the Allies if they materialised, but in answering frequent criticisms that the aid given to China and Australia is inadequate it must be pointed out that the quantity of aid which can be sent must be determined by circumstances which are at present uncontrollable, also that battles fought in' Russia, Africa and the Solomons are as much battles in China and Australia as in any other country. Despite British and American production miracles, there is just so much to go around. "All our available forces in the Pacific are already fighting in order to protect Australia, and Allied forces in Africa are not only fighting preparatory to the invasion of Europe, but also to open the Mediterranean supply route to India and China. If: there is not enough left to provide more aid for the Far East it is not a fault of distribution but the result of the original sin of all of the democracies—unpreparedness."