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Australia is almost as big as the U.S.; it has almost the population of New York City (the sheep population almost equals the U.S. human population). From Canberra (pronounced Can-bra), near Sydney on the east coast, to Perth out west is 2,400 miles. Just the fringes of Australia are inhabited; the southeast, particularly, and a little around Perth on the west coast (big-timber country) and at Darwin up north in the tropics, then down the east coast to Brisbane where urban living starts again...
Government Man. Curtin's office in Parliament House at Canberra looks out on a quiet street, lined with poplars, evergreens and plums. Canberra is a self-conscious little community, carved out of nothing and slow to grow. Public buildings, the cathedral, the shopping centers are spaced wide apart. In between, enterprising Diggers run their sheep...
Three months ago Curtin and his good friend Peter Fraser, Prime Minister of New Zealand, took a first step toward this dual goal of Pacific regionalism and stronger Empire ties. Their Canberra Agreement asserted ANZAC rights to be consulted on all Pacific dispositions. They must have moved too fast to suit President Roosevelt or old Cordell Hull; the reception in Washington was cold and silent. Though Whitehall kept very quiet, the scheme's reception in London was probably not much better...
After Washington comes London, and after London the Prime Minister will probably pass through Washington once again. When next John Curtin cocks a foot on his big bare desk in Canberra he should have a shrewd idea of how to guide Australia into its new world...
...Dominions "down under," where the invader was stopped uncomfortably close to the home grounds, there has been less talk of world order and much more of immediate security. In their Canberra Agreement last January, Messrs. Fraser and Curtin proposed to build a great Pacific arc around New Zealand and Australia, pledged a common, regional policy within the Commonwealth...