Australian Premier, interviewed today on his return from America said that the American view of the Pacific question was one of defence of the North Pacific and Hawaii.
The problem of the defence of the Pacific, as a whole, was not wi the sphere of the practical polities of the United States.
The Pacific question to Australia, Mr. Hughes declared, meant the defence of the South Pacific extending. northward to the mainland of Asia. Tt was his opinion that the defence of that area could not be contemplated without reference to the Singapore base, which the British Government had decided against, but he thought that circumstances in this connexion would prove too strong, and.added that when a thing must: the Netherlands and the League'be done, a declaration of intention! Arable, of whom seven have been Met to do it was futile—Reuter.
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