U.S EFFORT IN PACIFIC
COMMENT BY f hughes:, (Received August 17,% 1.30 SYDNEY, Statements that supplies ifo^HtW|® United States to Australia were pointingly small and had been to a mere trickle misleading inwm calculated to depress the people,? Australia., and hearten the enem&JfjHw Mr. W. M. Hughes to-day. He; that forces sent by the United to the Commonwealth were, least, substantial. , ' ti&m ‘•The Battle of the Solomonv,fpUfM& in the main by Americans, is as a battle for Australia 'as“-if' fought on the coasts of said. “Even more significant, than v-tKO|| magnitude and strength of engaged in the Solomons is.,the;yac|® that it is an offensive—the first offenajs sive by the Allies since the war began. The story, of the war makes depressing reading; been a story of aggressive, war by^tn?^ Japanese, and for the first time we ara®| now moving on. Sli “It is the opening stage of thaLgr#||a campaign for which we musteoricenya trate our lives. The Solomons. shows America’s strength and fidence that she can roll the Japanese^
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23718, 17 August 1942, Page 4
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