NEW ALIGNMENT IN PACIFIC?
AUSTRALIA AS ALLY OF AMERICA FEAR OF BRITISH DEAL WITH JAPAN ALLEGED (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received November 23, 9.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, November 23. The Hearst newspapers, in a column called “Washington Merry-Go-Round,” state: “It is a deep secret of the StAte Department, but Australia has put out feelers towards tying up with the United States in a Pacific defence system. Behind the move is a growing fear among Australians that because of their lean-
ings toward State socialism the proNazi clique controlling the Chamberlain Government is prepared to sacrifice them to make a deal with Japan in China, just as the Czechs were sold down the river to woo Herr Hitler’s goodwill in Central Europe.” The whole item, which is made up of the same sort of reasoning, concludes: “To make a new alignment with the United States Australia would establish a line of air and naval bases connecting with the defences of Hawaii, Panama Canal and South America.”
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Southland Times, Issue 23674, 24 November 1938, Page 5
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