QUESTION IN U.S. SENATE
Canberra Agreement FUTURE OF PACIFIC ISLANDS (Bv Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Received February 16, 11.45 p.m.) WASHINGTON, February 15. Demanding that Congress should be given full information ot commitments among the Allies, a Republican, Senator Shipstead, pointed out that Australia and New Zealand had concluded a treaty reserving to themselves an important par. in the disposition of Pacific islands, “apparently including islands not yet recovered from the Japanese.” He added that it would appear to be proper for the Senate to know something about such an agreement as Ion" as the # United (States was committed to divesting the Japanese empire of its conquests of the past half-century. _ .... ~ Sir. Shipstead told the Senate it should know what American manpower was being sent to fight for. “Is it really for the socialization of much of Europe, or is it for the creation of some hybrid Aus-tralasia-European sovereignty over the entire western and southern Pacific oceans?” he asked.-
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 121, 17 February 1944, Page 6
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