NEW OUTLOOK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 June 1943, Page 3

NEW OUTLOOK

IN PACIFIC" AND IN WAR AT LARGE SEEN BY DR. EVATT CONDITIONS OF DECISIVE VICTORY. OPPORTUNITIES THAT MUST NOT BE MISSED AGAIN. ’ (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, June 27. Broadcasting, the Australian Minister for External Affairs (Dr. Evatt) told the British people that there had been a notable improvement in the war situation from the Australian viewpoint in the last year. As Japan moved southward, fifteen months ago, the fate of Australia and New Zealand looked desperate. However, with help from England and America, both the British Dominions had remained inviolate, and the position in the Pacific had now changed from one cf the deepest gloom to one of hope and reasonable confidence. “Mr Churchill's leadership in your perils is paralleled by his understanding of ours," said Dr. Evatt. "Recently, after the Washington conferences, he and President Roosevelt foretold increasing offensive action against Japan in the Pacific. But, just as there is really only one enemy, there is really only one front—although there are many frontiers. That front is wherever our enemies still stand. The largest of the frontiers to which free men have rallied to defend our cause is the great frontier of the . Pacific. Australians with New Zealanders help to hold that frontier with united purpose. We know that supreme war strategy demands an overwhelming attack on chosen points. But we are also sure that, while we break one part of the line, the enemy must not only be held at all points, but even pressed back. That is why the Pacific frontiers must be supported and developed. We shad reap a harvest from the great victory in Africa and blows/against Europe only if we can hold the enemy in the Pacific and gradually drive him back towards the land where his treachery was born.” *

Dr Evatt continued: "Therefore our objective in Australia is not security for ourselves alone so much as increasing insecurity for Japan.” Di. Evatt told his listeners that th? Australian airmen serving with the R.A.F greatly outnumbered those serving with their own R.A.A.F. Giving details of the war in New Guinea, he said. "At one time 80 per cent of the Allied troops were suffering from malaria, but numerically the enemys total casualties were twice as heavy as ours. DOMINIONS AND PEACE. “The Dominions have earned the right to be heard in planning for peace,” claimed Dr. Evatt. "After the last war the Allied nations had a chance to establish true freedom, but we fumbled and missed great opportunities. We neglected our duty towards the youth of our own countries. We allowed the unemployment dole and poverty to haunt both the last generation and the present. And if we failed to perform our duty to our neighbours, even within our own countries, still less did we perform it towards the weak, helpless and poor of the world. Today we fight for another chance—and we cannot ease up cither in Europe or in the Pacific.”