BRUNT OF WAR

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 59, 12 March 1943, Page 5

BRUNT OF WAR

MUST BE BORNE BY U.S. EXHAUSTION OF DOMINION MANPOWER I R..' Telegraph Press Association—Copyright) Reed. 7 p.m New York. March 10 “America, not Australia or New Zealand, must bear the brunt of the war against Japan,” says Hallett Abend, expert on Far Eastern Affairs. "Valiant Dominions have virtually exhausted their manpower resourses. They cannot be expected to increase materially the size of their armies. The Dominions have been at war since September, 1939, and we will have to put into the Held almost 11,009,000 men before we have macle a manpower sacrifice equal to what Australia had macle before Pearl Harbour.” Abend sees the Chinese Army as the only hope of important manpower assistance against Japan. China will furnish an unlimited reservoir ol lighting men once the United Nations make contact with her on the continent of Asia, says Abend, who stresses the difficulty ot getting to China the thousands of planes which will be necessary to bomb Japan effectively. “iVe must steel our hearts to sacrifices which a long war will demand,” he declares. “There is no short, easy road to victory in the Far East”