A SENATOR’S WARNING
"THINGS LOOK BAD” (Rec. 9 p.m) WASHINGTON, Mar. 11. “I am not over-stating it when I say that things look bad in the Pacific,” declared Senator Robert Reynolds, chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee. He added that the Bismarck Sea victory had caused jubilation among thoughtless Americans, but sober reflection to those attempting to glimpse the future. The vaguely projected grand offensive against Japan proper might prove futile unless it was undertaken soon. “By the time we get around to it,” warned Senator Reynolds, “Japan may have completed the establishment of fully a dozen political, economic, industrial, and military zones as powerful as those contained in her. homeland, the triangle of Nagasaki-Yokohama-Hako-date. An assault on each of these centres would be fully as difficult and costly as an attack on Japan • proper. We would have to storm them all ot win the war.”
The United States Secretary for War, Mr H. L. Stimson, said there was evidence that Japan had increased her strength in the Southern Pacific, particularly north of Australia. There was ample evidence that hard fighting lay ahead.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25173, 13 March 1943, Page 5
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