NOT A SIDE-SHOW
WAR AGAINST JAPAN ASIATICS UNIMPRESSED ENEMY PROPAGANDA (10.30 a.m.) CANBERRA, Oct. 17. It would be utter madness to regard the Pacific war as a side-show to the defeat of Germany. Unless we also defeated Japan, it would leave us in an impossible position. This statement was made by Mr. Keith Officer, former Charge d’Affaires at the Australian Legation in Tokio. who has returned to Canberra after an exchange with Japanese diplomats. Mr. Officer said that an encouraging impression gained was that the native population of the Japanese-occupied countries were not greatly impressed with the Japanese propaganda that they were coming as deliverers. He thought, however, that it was essential for the United Nations to make clear their oost-war intentions to the peoples* of south-east Asia, otherwise Japanese propaganda in these countries might be successful in certain quarters. , „ The Japanese had treated the staff of the Australian Legation strictly correctly but. the treatment of nonofficials varied.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GISH19421017.2.26
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20917, 17 October 1942, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
158NOT A SIDE-SHOW Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20917, 17 October 1942, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Gisborne Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in