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...have enough young people to sustain an all-volunteer military. Conscription "is not a question of if," he says, "it's a question of when." He's found scant agreement among defense experts and none among politicians. But, says Ross Babbage, head of the defense think tank the Kokoda Foundation, "a problem is coming, and we can't afford to neglect...
...Conscription has never been a popular idea in Australia, and the next generation is unlikely to embrace it. "I don't think we need it," would-be reservist Wang says. "I wouldn't support it." Nor does the Kokoda Foundation's Babbage. But one way or another, he says, more Australians will have to do their bit for defense. At present just 26 in 10,000 serve, fewer than in many European countries. "The whole country benefits from national security, and in a crisis the whole country would need to contribute to it. We do that through taxes...
...steam-driven towboat Kokoda, running nearly 160 miles ahead of the diesel-driven Helena in a 1,100-mile race up the Mississippi from New Orleans to St. Louis, got stuck in the ice ten miles above Cairo, Ill., barely managed to get up enough headway to keep its lead...
...that never ceased. The Japs, weakened by dysentery and undernourishment, withdrew as fast as they had advanced. The Australians pushed on toward the gap at the top of the Owen Stanley Range. They started down the slope toward Buna, where the Japs landed last July. Last week they took Kokoda, a thatched native village 60 miles north of Moresby and 60 miles south of Buna, which has a small airfield. At Oivi, a few miles farther on, the Japs made a stand...
...denied his charges. General MacArthur, incidentally disowning any political ambitions (see p. 21), duly announced he had received the utmost cooperation. But informed observers judged Baldwin was not far wrong, guessed the recent improvement of news from New Guinea, including the Allies' recapture of the Jap base at Kokoda, was one sign that Douglas MacArthur was already solving some very serious internal problems. If this was true, Washington had one good reason (among a lot of bad ones) for dividing the Pacific command. The Navy, steering clear of General MacArthur, had also avoided his Australian complications...