PROSECUTION OF PACIFIC WAR

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23965, 4 June 1943, Page 5

PROSECUTION OF PACIFIC WAR

AUSTRALIAN VIEW OP WASHINGTON TALKS “TRUE APPRECIATION OF POSITION ” IRec. 10 P.m.) SYDNEY, Ju ” e , 3 . "One of the greatest successes of the war for Australia,” was the description given to-day hy the Prime Minister of Australia (Mr J. Curtin) of the Washington conference talks between Mr Churchill and Mr Roosevelt. The news that the war in the Pacific would be prosecuted with the same viK° ur as the war in Europe was good news for Australians,” declared Mr Curtin. "The plan of defeating Germany first,” he said, "might have menaced the very basis of the global strategy itself, by failing to "provide adequate force to prevent Japan from consolidating her conquests. It would have been possible for her to use Germany to fight a delaying action while she acquired an invincible defensive position. . . ... “Because of her key position in the Pacific, Australia sought to arouse public opinion to the dangers of its own drift and to show the dangerous fallacy of the hostile opposition to vigorous prosecution of the war in the Pacifie," said Mr Curtin. "The discussions in Washington have completely supported the contentions of the Australian Government. The conclusions reached by Mr Churchill and Mr Roosevelt show their true appreciation of the position.” -