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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 January 1942, Page 3

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FROM UNITED STATES SOUGHT BY AUSTRALIAN MINISTER. DELAY WOULD INTENSIFY DANGERS. NEW YORK, January 23. The Australian Minister in Washington, Mr Casey, broadcasting, issued, a warning that Australia “may be just |on the verge of invasion” and appealed to the United States “not to let us down.” “The utmost effort—at once—is needed to halt the Japanese,” Mr Casey declared. “They can be stopped if we all put our minds to it. None of us—neither you nor we—can afford to let the Japanese get any further. We must fight every inch everywhere. It is going to be 10 times harder to get it back than-to stop its being lost.” Mr Casey said it might be argued that the war against the Axis cannot be finally won in the Pacific; however, it might well be lost in the Pacific. “If We let the Japanese get away with things in the Far East, they may get into the Indian Ocean, and then it may be next to impossible to beat the Axis as they should be beaten,” he said. “Don’t let us take this Japanese business easily. It is not going to be easy.”

The “New York Times” in an editorial says that the deadly threat to Australia’s safety is also a threat to the United States of America. “Australians have earned the fullest measure of help it is possible for us to give them,” it says.