“THINGS LOOK BAD”
ACTION NEEDED IN PACIFIC Washington, March 12. “I am not over-stating it when I say things look bad in the Pacific,” declared Senator Robert Reynolds, chairman of the Military Affairs Committee of the Senate. He added that the Bismarck Sea victory had caused jubilation among thougntless Americans, but sober reflection among those attempting to obtain a glimpse oi the future. The vaguely projected grand offensive against Japan proper might prove lutile unless it was undertaKen soon. "By the time we get round to it," warned Senator Reynolds, "Japan may have completed the establishment of fully a dozen political, economic, industrial, and military zones as powerful as those containea in her Homeland triangle of Nagasaki-Yoko-hama-Hakodate. An assault on each of these centres would be fully as difficult and as costly as an attack on Japan proper. We would have to storm tnem all to win the war."
The Secretary of War, Mr. H. L. Stimson, said tnere was evidence that Japan had increased her strength in the southern l-'acfic, particularly north of Australia. There was ample evidence that hard fighting lay ahead.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 61, 15 March 1943, Page 5
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