NAVAL BASE AT DARWIN
REPORTED PLANS OF GOVERNMENT
f N .Z. Press Association—Copyright) SYDNEY, August 5. Plans are being prepared by the Commonwealth Government to make Darwin a powerful modern naval base and air base when the current development programme at the Manus Island base nears completion, says the Canberra correspondent of the Sydney “Sun.”
The Darwin defence plans will be accelerated to meet the new strategic position created in Northern Australia by the discovery and exploitation of some of the richest uranium fields in the world.
The correspondent says the uranium discoveries have transformed the strategic probabilities of a future world war. They have made the Northern Territory of Australia the most valuable single military prize in the Pacific region. Ministers agree that combatants able to exploit'Australia’s uranium will hold a dominating and perhaps decisive advantage in a world war.
The destruction of the uranium installations is a military possibility and defence planning is being developed to guard against this
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27112, 7 August 1953, Page 6
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