Islands

Pacific

Monthly

August 18, 1947

Vol. Xviii. No. 1.

lished 1930.

{Registered at the GI t by post as a newspaper']

AERIAL photograph of the great naval and air base at Manus, Admiralty Islands horthwards of New Guinea), before it was virtually abandoned to Australia by the United States. An article in this issue describes how Australian politicians’ fretful inoistence on their various “rights” (Manus is part of the original Mandated Territory of New Guinea) led to the United States losing interest in a base on which they had spent an enormous sum, and which should have become a bastion of the Europeans’ Pacific defence against Asia Australia has not the resources for adequately maintaining the base.