POPULATIONS OF THE PACIFIC
To avoid democracy's error of unpreparedness being repeated without our authority, it would seem advisable to review the world's distribution of population. For the white man in the Pacific this question is a vital feature of future security, and we should realise at once that we must have constructive schemes large enough to counter the enormously enlarged pwers of destruction. In New Zealand and Australia it is urgent that we have the prompt transfusion of an army of 10,000,000 or 20,000,000 citizens and their households just as quickly as this can be safely accomplished. I suggest that the men be retained on army pay at the combined and equal expense of the country from which they come and the country to which they go, until they can be absorbed into civilian occupations, and that after absorption they should remain organised as a potential army should danger suddenly arise. The British Isles also should be kept populated strongly to face possible continental dangers. M.A.P.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 119, 22 May 1942, Page 4
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167POPULATIONS OF THE PACIFIC Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 119, 22 May 1942, Page 4
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