PACIFIC DEFENCE SYSTEM
REPORTED OVERTURES TO U.S.A. j ill 1* A.— bv Electric Te.learaob—Copyrishll NEW YORK, 23rd November. I’lie llearst newspapers, in a column tailed "Washington Merry-Go-Round, Gossip from the Capital,” state: ‘‘lt is ; a deep secret of the btate Department that Australia has put out feelers toward j tying up with thu United States in a Pacific defence system. “Behind this move is a growing fear i among Australians that because of their 1 leanings toward State Socialism, the proNazi clique controlling the Chamberlain . Government is piepared to sacrifice them in order to make a deal with Japan in ! China, iust as the Czechs were sold down the river in order to woo Hitler s goodwill in Central Europe.” The entire item, which is made up of i the same sort of reasoning, concludes: “In order to effect a new alignment with the United States. Australia would establish a line of air and naval bases connecting with the defences of Hawaii, the Papana Canal and South America.’
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 24 November 1938, Page 8
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