PACIFIC BASES
AMERICAN CONGRESSMAN’S IDEAS.
WASHINGTON, November 7.
Rabaul may become one of several new permanent post-war American naval bases, said the chairman of the Naval Affairs Sub-committee on War cf the House of Representatives, Mr Magnuson, when interviewed by the United Press of America. He added: “Strategical needs also call for American bases on Guadalcanal, Espiritu Santo (New Hebrides), Noumea (New Caledonia), and probably Formosa (off the' South China coast). These bases would be used in conjunction with bases on American islands and Truk, in the Japanese Carolines, which will become the Pearl Harbour of the West Pacific.
Mr Magnuson also said that American naval units assigned to police the Pacific would require certain privileges regarding the use of Australian and New Zeaalnd bases, “which I believe they are. willing to grant.” “Moreover,” he added, “it will be desirable to retain a base on the Western Australian coast.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 November 1943, Page 3
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