Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guinea, Australian troops seized Sio, a Japanese barge center. The dividend: when these units join Americans, now pressing ahead on the rugged Huon peninsula coast, the stage will be set for a drive on Madang...
...country through several months of the North African campaign, accumulates neither meaning nor suspense. Nor can it hold up as straight reporting, for most of it is purpled by the storybook struggle between a U.S. top sergeant (Myron McCormick) and a titled British captain (Bramwell Fletcher) over an Australian nurse. The captain is out of a Punch cartoon, the girl just out of this world. In the end, while Stukas blaze overhead, the proud peer gamely reads the marriage service over the girl and the better...
...Saidor on the northern New Guinea coast, found scant opposition, lost three men dead, buried eleven Japs, seized the settlement's grass huts, coconut groves, rubber plantations (the first recovered from the Japs), an unused air strip. Then they fanned out, trapping Jap patrols who were skirmishing with Australians some 60 miles down the coast. With an Australian column poised inland in the Ramu Valley, they set up a two-pronged threat to Madang, the next important Jap base northwest of Finsch-haven. One day last week General MacArthur's fliers plastered the Madang area with 243 tons...
...British Empire Parliamentary Association (800 M.P.s and peers) laid back its ears and bayed last week. What set them off was a letter, written by Newscaster John Hughes, of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, to his father a London journalist. The letter said that OWI and associated U.S. agencies had virtually monopolized the Australian radio. Wrote young Hughes...
...Australian press urged General MacArthur, commander in chief of all Allied forces in Australia, to clarify his attitude toward the U.S. political scene, because "prolonged uncertainty should not be allowed to prejudice this theater of operations...