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AGAINST ’JAPAN IN HOME TERRITORY URGED BY AMERICAN SENATOR. DEVELOPMENT OF NEW ENEMY ZONES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON, March 11. “I am not over-stating it when I say things look bad in the Pacific,” declared Senator Robert Reynolds, chairman of the Military Affairs Committee of the Senate. He added that the Bismarck Sea victory had caused jubilation among thoughtless Americans, but sober reflection to those attempting to glimpse the future. A vaguely projected grand offensive against Japan proper might prove futile unless it was undertaken soon. “By the time we get round to it,” warned Senator Reynolds, “Japan may have completed the establishment of fully a dozen political, economic, industrial and military zones as powerful as those contained in her homeland triangle of Nagasaki-Yokohama-Hakodate. An assault on each of these centres would be fully as difficult and as costly as an attack on Japan proper. We would have to storm them all to win the war.” The Secretary for War, Mr Stimson, said there was evidence that Japan had increased her strength in the southern pacific, particularly north of Australia. There was ample evidence that hard fighting lay ahead.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 March 1943, Page 3
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