PACIFIC DEFENCE
AUSTRALIA & UNITED STATES VIEWS OF IVIR CURTIN. FULL SAY IN DIRECTING WAR PLAN. (By Telegraph— Press Association— Copyright) MELBOURNE. December 28. With war in the Pacific, Australia looked to .America rather than Britain, said the Prime Minister, Mr Curtin. The Australian Government regarded the struggle in the Pacific as one in which Australia and the United States must have the fullest say in directing the fighting plan. “We know Australia pan go and Britain can hold on,’’ Mr Curtin said. “We are therefore determined that Australia shall not go. We shall exert all our energies to shaping a defence plan, with the United States as its keystone, which wpuld enable us to field out till the tide swings against the enemy.
“Summed up, the Australian policy would be shaped toward obtaining Russian aid and working out with the United States a plan qf strategy in the Pacific along with the British, Chinese and- Dutch forces.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 December 1941, Page 2
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