AMERICAN CLAIMS
Control Of Pacific Islands After War SENATOR CHANDLER'S IDEA nee. 11 a.m. WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 Senator Chandler, of Kentucky, one of the five United States Senators who recently made a tour of world battlefronts, told the United Press that the Senate Military Affairs Committee had asked the Navy to recommend which of the Pacific islands should be fortified by the United States after the Avar. Emphasising the importance of American control of the Pacific, Senator Chandler said the United States must establish and maintain a powerful Pacific defence line, including the Bonin Islands, 700 miles south of the Japanese mainland. This he added might sound imperialistic, but foi the sake of peace, the United States must control the Pacific, and it would be dangerous to permit these island to fall into tne nancls of weakei nations, which would be unable to explained that many islands, like the Bonins were outside the British sphere of influence The British could not defend them They also could not defend Australia but, even so, in consideragroup.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 303, 22 December 1943, Page 5
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