AMERICAN POWER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 November 1942, Page 4

AMERICAN POWER

THE DETERMINING FACTOR IN WAR & COMING PEACE CHICAGO PAPER’S VIEW. POSITION OF THE PACIFIC DOMINIONS. (By Telegranh—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) NEW YORK, November 19. “The American Navy, .fighting in the Solomons and the American Army and marines in Guadalcanal saved Australia from invasion without material assistance from any other nation, ’ says the “Chicago Tribune” editorially. “Except for the protection accorded by our soldiers and sailors, Australia today would be wide open and in all prooability an attack would long since have been launched. When Singapore fell, Australians awoke to a realisation that Britain could no longer be relied upon and that the only hope lay in America. That hope was. not rmsplaced. Inevitably Australians will regard the new relationship as the cornerstone of their international policy for an indefinite future. New Zealand, perhaps South Africa and certainly ail the Americas, including Canada, are dependent indeed on the United States military power which is now oep'inning to make itself manifest many parts of the world and is destined to be the determining factor in the organisation of the post-war world. We have become the principal partners of the United Nations.. Those Americans who feel a sense cf inferiority to Europe are living in the past. This is the American century.’