PARTNERSHIP OF PLUNDER
JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA Earnest professors in Berlin—all little Ptihrers "of ad infinitum vision"—are : rebuilding the world to their hearts' Jcsire. Europe under Germany is merey the starting point. "There is Ausralia." writes Werner A. Lohe, reflecivcly jn the latest number of the 'Deutsche Kolonial-Zeitung." "Australia is for Japan what Africa s for Europe—the source of raw niaerials and the mutual trading partner >n a grand scale . . . Australia proluces all the things which Japan’s in- 1 lustries need, with the exception of ■oal and iron (of which ample quail-' ities can be got from China, and of oil -ut oil lies within arm’s reach in the ' Dutch East Indies). "But Australia can offer something J dse ol vital importance to Japan It j las land, sufficient fertile land, to pro- ' •ide a living for hundreds of thous- i mds. if not millions, of Japanese which j hey cannot find in the severe climate >f Manchukuo or in North China.” He admits a little fretfully that the Australians may have different views or their future, but "as the Axis i ralian opposition to Japan is simply a >ieee of nonsense." - (Diplomatic cor 1
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 5 August 1941, Page 5
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