Correspondents

Answers to Correspondents

W.W (Rarotonga) .—Thanks for the Auckland “Star” cutting containing Marc Greene s splurge about the gentlemanly Japs We had already seen it. We sent the Auckland “Star” details of Jap mas sacres in Tol (New Guinea), Tarawa (Gil bert Islands), North-eastern Papua, Ocean Island—to mention only a few of the Pacific places where the semi-human animals that Mr. Greene so ferociously defends have committed horrible crimes against Europeans. But the “Star” did not publish the material.

R.A.V.—-Gan onyone really challenge TT l l S^, So^ndness of our argument that, if UNO is not going to take full control of international relations, and if the United States will not accept responsi bility for policing the South Pacific, there o f -^ tu ri for the whi te race in the South Pacific? The same Australians who wept with joy to see the Americans arriving in their ports in March, 1942 now are snarling because America wants to retain the use of the huge base she built in Manus. Australians, notoriously, are fools in most matters affecting their overseas and international relations. But surely even Australians can see they cannot survive in the South Seas for another hundred years unless thev have the active protection of some ‘ Great Power. Rocket propulsion and atomic bombs mean that Britain, in wartime will be pinned down in Europe. Russia is an enemy of the Australian way of life, only less menacing than the Asiatics themselves. So there is only one Power left to whom Australia can look— the United States. What goes for Aus tralia, goes also for all the Pacific Ter • X°u may not like our view of this situation. Many people—especi ally Americans—disagreed violently with pur warnings in relation to Japan in the long years before Pearl Harbour But events since 1941 proved us right. We now say that, since Russia is determined to raise Asia against the Western Demo cracies, the danger to the South Seas Territories from Asia is as great as ever was the danger from Japan.

Lieut.-Colonel F. W. Voelcker, new Ad ministrator of Western Samoa, who has been spending some weeks in Fiji, Tonga, and the Cook Islands, left Suva for Apia on March 6 to take up his new duties in the Territory.