BOOK OF THE DAY OCEANIA .Westward the Course. By Paul McGuire. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 411 pp. (13/6.) Mr McGuire’s study of “the new world of Oceania” was written in 1941 and went to press in the United States two days after Pearl Harbour. It would have been a useful and timely book, had no such event occurred to emphasise its usefulness and timaliness; but they are heavily emphasised by it and by events since. Mr Mc-Guu-e wrote of Fiji, for Instance, as toe hub of the south-central Pacific” 1 of Australia and New Zealand ns stays « J he fra J n . e of order in two-thirds of the world,” Yet without the test and demonstration of war in the pacific, how many would have recognised that one phrase expressed a strategic fact which it was folly to Ignore, and that the other defined a £?il! i £ a n' iu , ty wh , ich [i has been worse kjban'folly to neglect?
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23800, 20 November 1942, Page 4
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