This Far And No Farther!
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From our Lae Correspondent
“We say to Dr. Soekamo, ‘This far and no farther’, and in saying it we must support it by strengthening our forces both in Australia and in the Territory”
MR R F BUNTING, president of the New Guinea Branch of the RSL said this when addressing the annual Congress of the branch in Lae in March Mr Bunting said that Indonesia had taken over the 700,000 people of West New Guinea by threat of force Dr Soekarno had recently stated that he “was surrounded by imperialists”, and since Australia and NZ covered his southern sector it
could only be assumed that he con sidered them imperialists.
“Indonesia has the largest Corn munist membership of any country outside Russia and China, said Mr.
Bunting, “and so it is logical to state that on the takeover of West New Guinea there will be many Corn munists migrating who will have the opportunity of spreading their m sidious propaganda the whole length of our boundary.”