AUSTRALIA AND U.S. Strength seen in alliance
N .Z.PA.-Reuter —Copyright MELBOURNE, Jan. 25.
Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Lance Barnard) said in Melbourne today that the Australian-American alliance had never been stronger.
Addressing an Australia Day luncheon in the Melbourne Town Hall, Mr Barnard said that the relationship had improved as a result of a maturing process that had been retarded in recent years. He said that at the same time Australia no longer could act as a junior partner dependent on strategic and military policies of more powerful friendly nations. Mr Barnard said it was not his Government’s intention to sit back and rely on a powerful nation to safeguard and protect Australia. Australia no longer could assume that American interests in local ar.d regional situations necessarily would be the same, or even close to. its own views.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33443, 26 January 1974, Page 9
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