BATTLE FOR PACIFIC
DIFFICULT DAYS AHEAD PLEA FOR UTMOST EFFORT (Rec. 10 p.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 22. The Australian Minister to Washington, Mr R. G. Casey, Broadcasting at the opening of Freedom House, said: “The utmost effort is at once needed to halt the Japanese. They can be stopped if we all put our minds to it. None of us, neither you nor we, can afford to let the Japanese get any further. We must fight every inch, everywhere. It is going to be 10 times harder to get it back than to stop its being lost.” “It may be argued that the war against the Axis cannot finally be won in the Pacific. However, it may well be lost in the Pacific. If we let the Japanese get away with things in the Far East they may get into the Indian Ocean, and then it may be next to impossible to beat the Axis as they should be beaten. Don’t let us take this Japanese business easily. It is not going to be easy.”
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Southland Times, Issue 24651, 24 January 1942, Page 5
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175BATTLE FOR PACIFIC Southland Times, Issue 24651, 24 January 1942, Page 5
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