PACIFIC THEATRE OF WAR
CANNOT BE NEGLECTED AMERICAN POLICY Washington, Jan. 19. The chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Senator Tom Connally, said that the United States could not afford to neglect the Pacific for any other war tneatie. “We cannot go off and leave the Pacific theatre alone.” be said. “If we did the Japanese would be in Australia soon. If we neglected the Pacific the Japanese would solidify the ; r points of conquest, from v.aich it would take a long and dreary war to dislodge them.’’
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 17, 21 January 1942, Page 6
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