PACIFIC DEFENCE
AUSTRALIA'S GROWING FEAR LINK UP WITH AMERICA SUGGESTED HEARST NEWSPAPERS’ REPORT. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, November 23. The Hoarst newspapers, in a column called ' The Washington Merry-go-Round, Gossip from the Capital,’ state: “ lb is a deep secret of the State Department, but Australia has put out foolers toward tying up with the United States in a Pacific defence system. Behind the move is a growing fear among Australians that because of their leanings toward State Socialism the pro-Nazi clique controlling the Chamberlain Government is prepared to sacrifice them in order to make a deal with .lax>an in China, just as the Czechs wore sold down tho river in order to woo Herr Hitler’s goodwill in Central Europe.”
The entire item, which is made up of the same sort of reasoning, concludes: “In order to effect a new alignment with the United States Australia would establish a lino of air naval bases connecting with tho defences of Hawaii, the Panama Canal, and South America.”
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Evening Star, Issue 23123, 24 November 1938, Page 13
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167PACIFIC DEFENCE Evening Star, Issue 23123, 24 November 1938, Page 13
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