Stepping Stones Toward Japan
Washington, Aug. 23. According to the United Press Senator Millard Tydings, a naval affairs committee member, said that the Solomons victory was the most far-reaching Allied achievement towards Japan's defeat because it provided suitable airfields between Australia and Japan, from which Allied planes could prey on Japanese shipping. • . He further predicted that attacks from the Solomons would conquer Japaneseheld islands between the Solomons and Japan, thus providing stepping stonea carrying the Allied forces gradually northward towards the Philippines. also north-westward towards Asia and finally towards Japan. Senator Tydings also believed that the Solomons victory might postpone a Japanese attack against India,. which was probably planried fSc fi"feW weeks hence when the monsoon ended.
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Taranaki Daily News, 25 August 1942, Page 3
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