GENERAL KENNEY'S MISSION
"WILL NOT RETURN EMPTY-HANDED " (Rec. 12.20 p.m.) WASHINGTON, March 29. According to the semi-official ' Army and Navy Journal,' General MacArthur's urgent pleas for reinforcements for the South-west Pacific have met with little compliance in Washington. However, the Washington correspondent of the New York ' Herald-Tri-bune' reports: "I have learned from trustworthy sources that Lieutenantgeneral Kenney by no ; .means will be returning to_ Australia empty-handed from his mission to Washington. While he has not got all the plane reinforcements he requested, nevertheless he has obtained substantial quantities." In an editorial headed ' Australia in. Peril,' the New York ' Daily Mirfor ' says: "In the 12 months since he was sent to Australia General MacArthur has performed military prodigies with a limited force of men, supplies, and planes. In saving Australia he has de-. monstrated that he is one of the world's foremost aviation strategists. However, General MacArthur's brilliance should not hide the fact that Australia is menaced more than ever before. Genera] MacArthur must have planes soon, and in numbers, to smash the concentrations which the Japanese are massing in scores of pldces to the north-east and north-west of Australia."
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Evening Star, Issue 24466, 30 March 1943, Page 3
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