BRITISH ACTION
AGAINST THE JAPANESE & HITLER DEMANDED BY LONDON PAPER. NECESSITY OF FORESTALLING INVASION. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.20 p.m.) LONDON, May 19. The “Daily Express,” in a leader, says: “We cannot write off Australia as America’s business any more than we can write off the defeat of Hitler as Stalin’s business. The urge, to attack Hitler is burning in the people of Britain. We are not demanding a second front in Europe as a reprisal front. We ask it deliberately as a means of beating the Axis. A Japanese invasion of Australia would be the bitterest blow the Empire has yet had to take. An invasion of Australia is no longer a choice for the Japanese. It is a necessity. They must smash the Allied hammer in Australia before it is big enough to reach out and use the East Indies as its anvil. The Japanese war machine must be stopped and broken by the Allied forces in Australia before it has a chance to lanc(.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 May 1942, Page 4
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