Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 December 1943 — Page 5

directly fasigg si of aslo. onl Affairs et H. V. Evatt to Britain, the possibility of a change in course has become clear. Evatt brought back not only Spitfires— the first British fighter planes seen here since that single gunless Hurricane which toured Australia before Pearl Harbor—but also the assurance that England was aware of Australia’s expansionist ‘plans for the post-war Pacific,

Will History Repeat?

Once before, at a similar point in world war I, an Australian emissary went to London when Germany was beginning to totter. That was in June, 1918. Australia’s prime minister was volatile, mettlesome William Hughes, later to be Woodrow Wilson's deadly rival at the Versailles, Six months before the armistice, “Uncle Billy” Hughes brought back assurance to Australia that when peace was made, Australia would get as prizes the gold-rich former | German New Guinea and the] northern §olomons. When ° these aims were revealed at Versailles, Wilson whittled them down slightly into Class C mandates, which amounted to total control. England's aid worked for Australia’s expansion, Now the demand has arisen that Curtin go to Britain. While still fully dependent on American air forces and the outlying defenses of the American battle fleet in the | Solomons and the Bismarck sea, Australia is preparing itself politically to act, as always, within the framework of the British commonwealth of nations when its future is decided.

Protected By Our Fleel

Only a rank pessimist would suggest, because of this new trend toward Britain, that the Australian honeymoon with the United States is at a close. Australia still recognizes its de- _ pendence on that giant subsidy of American airplanes and battleships which comes outside the scope of lend-lease. Battles seem somewhat remote to the urban masses which actually control Australia’s policies, but they actually see American

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their streets. While Australia’s exemplary army has probably killed. more Japs than have American soldiers, it is the power of industrial production that alone can defend the high living standard of Australia’s 7,000,000 against Japan's 70,000,000. It is only this invisible subsidy from American shipyards and air plane factories that keeps out the Oriental and- protects the AngloSaxon living standard on © the world’s least peopled continent. As though to make unmistakable Australia’s fresh course, its labor

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