U.S. Help If Japs. Attack Australia?
(Received 2.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, February 25. The “Washington Post,” in a fullpage. illustrated article, based on the arrival of Mr R. G. Casey, the first Australian Minister in the United States, says the position could be extremely perilous it anything happened to British sea-power. Only the United States navy would stand between a covetous Japanese and the Dominions in the Pacific. “While Australians are virile enough not to rely on the United States, they do not believe the Americans would sit down quietly and see them overwhelmed by Asiatic hordes. Australians. spiritually, are as much akin to the United States, as Britain.” The Washington “Star" thinks Ihat, one of the reasons for Mr Casey's appointment is Australia's interest in making friends where she fears 1 lie Japanese would strike, southward, is appreciated. The paper adds that the United States Government welcomes an Australian move as strengthening her own relations with Japan.
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Northern Advocate, 26 February 1940, Page 5
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