PACIFIC DEFENCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 January 1941, Page 5

PACIFIC DEFENCE

AUSTRALIA IN KEY POSITION RELATIONS WITH UNITED STATES. ADDRESS BY MR CASEY. I ißy Tek-iiraph—Press AsSiX-liUlon—Copyright) BOSTON, January 18. The Australian Minister to Washing- | ton. Mr. R. G. Casey, addressing the | Sons of the American Revolution, rei called that the birth of Australia rc- ; suited from the American War of Ini dependence, With the establishment | of direct Australian-United States re- ■ Intions "history came a full circle ami I what may be called the stepchild of i your revolution reache<! maturity and I entered "into formal diplomritie relaliotis with you.” he said. .Australians were increasingly conscii'us < f being a Peciflc nation and; believed they had ;m ineiv-asingly im-j portant part to play in the develop-1 mviit of the Pacific area, he continued.J T’m-y realised that after the war was; won they would have to co-operate toj a greater extent in this with the; United States than they had previously.' Many Americans think of the west-! ern Pacific solely in terms <>f the Far’ Fa-; ‘ Mr, Casey said. “They are! msi;t):vu’ntlv <■ »tiscious < ! f the south-i V, <-‘.e:n Pacific <>f which Australia isj •he central land mass and core—fill J area of great strategic significance! which may well turn out to bo the key j of the Pacific area.” - m——