BASES IN PACIFIC

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 239, 6 July 1944, Page 5

BASES IN PACIFIC

Chicago Paper’s View

NEW YORK, July 4. The Chicago "Tribune” publishes the following editorial: — "Mr. Fraser says that the peace conference can settle the Daeitic bases question. In one way this might be true if Australia and New Zealand approved the transfer to tile Unitecl States of all the bases which our strategists regard as necessary to preserve the peace in the Pacific. "However, Mr. Fraser says that two principles should be observed : First, occupation for war purposes has not established sovereignly; secondly. Australia and New Zealand must be consulted. "Mr. Fraser neglected to mention another principle that renders his two irrelevant. The people of the United States are determined that there shall lie no more imperialist aggression in the Pacific. We are prepared to commit our armed strength to that task, with or without allies. “We can welcome Australia s and New Zealand’s co-operation, but if they eon; cede us the responsibility, as facts of power force them to do. they must concede also that the mentis of achieving it shrill he ours. “In that important sense the decision regarding the bases must be unilateral. Olli* purpose is not to guarantee any nations in th.- Empire, but to. prevent aggressions which threaten us.