THROUGH AMERICAN EYES.
IMPRESSIONS OF AUSTRALIA. PROFESSOR BIGELOW'S VIEWS. [press association.] SYDNEY, 7th December. Professor Bigelow, of Boston, who is touring the world studying different methods of colonisation, has arrived here. In the course of an interview the Professor said it seemed to him that Australia was far away the most important element in the English-speaking Empire. Geographically, she was at a point where she would have to act, possibly alone, for her own safety, if not for the integrity of the Empire. America, said Professor Bigelow, would soon be reaching her hand to Australia, from the Philippines as well m from San Francisco, and America's colonial possessions would soon be looking to Australia as their natural protector as well as their best market. The life of the Germans in Pacific waters, as well as in South Africa, the Professor said, was not worth many years' purchase. The question of controlling the islands of the Pacific would rest on Australia from the moment pressure of population or Home political excitement made it . appear necessary to preserve for the future a little more elbow room.
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Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 138, 8 December 1904, Page 5
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