"THE SOUTH SEAS".

Dozerdust, Volume 2, Issue 4, 15 January 1944, Page 1

"THE SOUTH SEAS".

* THOSE who live comfortably around Pacific shore* can no longer afford to ig no re the probl ems of their Island neighbours ”, partly because, this war lias revealed how important the ■ Pacific Islands are in world strategy, partly because the islands are a source of' great mineral and other wealth - Nov/ Guinea, one of the world’s greatest oil reservoirs - and partly because the prewar organisation .of Pacific Islands in a crazy quilt o f Mandates, Condominium and Establishments is now a thing of the past ff ;n: ' Y/HAT the post-war settlenant will ba it is not our business to enquire, bat whatever the settlement , it is our business to Tamil a rise ourselves with ■ the. islands and the people who constitute our “neighhours” IT no doubt comes as a surprise that our ” neighbours ” take in about one eight of the world’s surface; that the archipelagos and islande within it have a lived area of about 319,000 square miles - almost twice the size of pre-war Eranco, and throe times the size of Japan pro pc x\, The total population io near 2-|- mi Hi on o ?s* THEY wore grouped into eightl--co pa te juri ®di uti on

undo the ooyorQi/znty .I&SILW Australia, Chilei Pranoo, Groat Britain, Holland, Japan, Now Zealand & the United atatoo* Thin ox*aay quilt pattern no doubt M worked « while tho attention of world powers wan foe;. i?d on., domestic and European problems* But the . Pacific •♦ - cur M neighbour * have come to stay® • H H n It it it It tt ti ti