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FEDERAL PRIME MINISTER’S PROPOSALS EMPIRE-UNITED STATES CO-OPERATION AUSTRALIA’S MANPOWER PROBLEM (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, May 10. British warships, American planes and Australian troops may jointly police the South add SouthWest Pacific ssourlty zone, as a result of proposals Mr Curtin is submitting to the Dominion Prime Ministers’ conference. The plan, which would be implemented immediately after the overthrow of Japan, will be the subject of further consultations between Mr Curtin and President Roosevelt. The whole war time structure of Australia may be vitaly affected as a result of the current deliberations of the Prime Ministers. It was made clear today, in circles in close touch with the Empire leaders, that Mr Curtin’s thesis that the maintenance of a large proportion of the nation’s manpower in the fighting services is no longer compatible with the production of vastly increasing supplies of foodstuffs for Britain and liberated Europe, has been whole-heartedly accepted by Mr Churchill and other Prime Ministers. Mr Curtin left his 'colleagues in no doubt about the Australian will to fight. He repeatedly emphasised that Australia was most anxious actively to assist in throwing back the Japanese. He declared that the nation’s manhood would prefer a combatant role in the Far Eastern war. However Mr Curtin went on to demonstrate statistically that Australia’s seven million population was incapable of keeping up the fighting forces at their present level and simultaneously meeting demands from the United Nations for more foodstuffs. Mr Curtin’s forthright exposition of the Pacific manpower situation is believed to have greatly enhanced his reputation. He is generally commended for the selflessness with which he has advanced Australia’s views, combined with his common sense approach to common Empire problems.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 May 1944, Page 4
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