“Australians Had Better Get Into Pacific War”
ARMY MINISTER C ALLED BY AMERICAN JIBE Received Wednesday, 8.50 p.m. CANBERRA, March 15. The American public was being “very indifferently informed” of the part played by Australian troops in the Southwest Pacific, said the Commonwealth Minister of the Army (Mr. Forde) to-day. Ono American newspaper (the isolationist Chicago Tribune) recently declared that Australians had better get into the Pacific war themselves. “It is galling to read such things after 4J years of war during which the Australians have fought in nearly every war theatre,’ ’ added Mr. Forde. In proportion to its population Australia has as many men under arms as any nation, Allied or enemy, in tho war. Of medically fit men in the Australian Army 86 per cent, had volunteered for service in any part of the world. The remaining 14 per cent, included a large number of boys aged 18 and 19 years who were prevented from going outside Australia.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 62, 16 March 1944, Page 5
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160“Australians Had Better Get Into Pacific War” Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 62, 16 March 1944, Page 5
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