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AMERICAN APPREHENSION CO-OPERATION ADVOCATED. TO MEET THREATS. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received April 23, 9.35 a.m. WASHINGTON, April 22. Rear-Admiral Taussig, former : Assistant-Chief of Naval. Operations, testifying before the Senate Naval Affairs Committee, expressed the opinion that Japan would attempt to take the Philippines, French Indo-China, and the Netherlands Indies. “I cannot see how we can ultimately prevent being drawn into tbe war on account of the Ear Eastern situation,” he said. He urged the building of an invincible navy, the fortification of the Philippines and Guam, and co-opera-tion with Britain and .France in the East. Major George Fielding Eliot, a military writer, expressed the opinion that a British, American and Netherlands Pacific alliance would be ineffective because Britain and Holland at present have no freedom of action. He advocated instead an agreement with Australia, and added that if the United States had the support of Australian bases and lent money to improve them it might be in a better position in the Pacific.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 123, 23 April 1940, Page 7
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