U.S. Protection?

Are We Now Under U.S. Protection?

German Viewpoint and Argument

The following Press Association mes sage, from London, dated April 30, was published in Australia on May 1: — mHE correspondent of. the United Press X of America, at Berlin, sends an extract from an editorial in the “Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung” which appears to suggest a German view that the United States has quietly taken over the “protection” of Australia and Singa pore against an emergency.

The writer in the German paper de clares that an unwritten division of the oceans between Britain and America,

with the Atlantic for Britain and the Pacific for the United States, must have been designed to meet resistance.

“America is acting differently from 20 years ago and is not waiting until the end of the war to carry out her plans,” it adds. “These plans, however, are based on the premise, which is not yet proved, of the invincibility of the Brit ish fleet.”

The extract concludes: “A German victory will work to Japanese advan tage and divert America from her policy of ‘keeping a tight reign on Japan’ after having silently taken over the protection of Australia and Singapore.”