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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 January 1962Vol. XXXII, No. 6

[?] Guinea “Vitae

p. 43 · Read in the full issue

To Australia"

TEVER may be the official e taken by Australia in the ed conflict over possession of ew Guinea, individual Aus are not so restrained. There n a flood of letters to news -almost without exception in of a firmer stand against a. g the month the following s sent us by the Royal Aus irmoured Corps Association, ranch, which takes the view stralia must continue to be oncerned with New Guinea. ttached resolution was passed nth at the Annual Federal > of this Association. We feel iders may be interested in it. resolved that the dependence :curity of the Commonwealth alia on control of the United Trusteeship Territory of inea and the Australian Terri- Papua by Australia, is self egardless of what may be the disposition of the territories Netherlands Government in ew Guinea, either through of those territories by the nds, or by unilateral control •ther nation or by any system d Nations control, the foreign he defence, and the internal of the Territories of Papua ' Guinea must remain firmly e control of the Government Commonwealth of Australia me, his Association, including in nbership Australians who i New Guinea in World War ;serve Australian freedom, is ;tic towards the welfare and aspirations of the native of Papua and New Guinea, annot view with equanimity •osals from whatever quarter i control of the three vital contained in the previous hs should be in any way