Peace in the Pacific
On the bas/s that the policy of the British Government, under Mr. Neville Chamberlain, had produced a situation in which Australia and New Zealand could no longer look to the Homeland for any assistance in war-tin*. Mr T. C. McGillick, Australian lecturer, today suggested to Gisborne Rotarians that these Dominions should seek the establishment of a 'Pacific pact, chiefly with 'the United States and Russia, to keep in check Fascist movements which might menace their unprotected coastlines. Mr. McGillick argued that Britain under Mr. Chamberlain would not accept co-operation with Russia, and that repeated rejections of Russian proposals for international action had led’to the present European situation, with Germany in the seat of Power, and her partners in the antiComintern pact merely awaiting the right opportunity to press their own ambitions at the expense of the democracies,
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19390321.2.67
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19892, 21 March 1939, Page 7
Word Count
141Peace in the Pacific Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19892, 21 March 1939, Page 7
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.