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...life Jack Curtin, 59, had never felt the need to see the non-Australian world. Years ago, Vance Marshall, an Australian laborite now living in London, visited Jack in Perth. "I'm on my way to England," Marshall said. Curtin looked out the window, at the endless, cloudless western sky. "Isn't there room enough in Australia?" he finally asked. "Not for me," 'retorted Marshall. "Australia's in the back wash. It's back of beyond of even the fringe of things that matter. I want to be where history is written...
...explosive was announced to newsmen last week at the award of an Army & Navy "E"' pennant to a Du Pont plant at Perth Amboy, N.J., where hexamine is made. The other ingredients of the explosive are secret, but the Army described its properties: it explodes faster and more violently than TNT. Apparently it has been used so far only in bombs, for which it is ideal...
...coffee, President Roosevelt got a firsthand account of warfare in the Pacific from his young, trusted friend, Congressman Lyndon Baines Johnson of Texas. Tall Lyndon Johnson, a Navy lieutenant commander, had sought active duty one hour after voting for war against Japan. He had ranged as far as Perth, Melbourne, Sidney, Darwin and Port Moresby. Now he returned to Washington 28 Ib. lighter (from a pneumonia attack) but much wiser in the ways...
...seaports like Broome and Wyndham (where Jap planes have also attacked). For the present the Japs can probably win bridgeheads at such places if they want to take the trouble. Based there, they would still be 1,450 miles from the one worthwhile western objective, the southwestern port of Perth, and its surrounding farm, cattle and mineral lands...
...heavy cruiser Exeter, which by skillful maneuver drove the Admiral Graf Spee to her ignoble end in 1939, and four destroyers (Encounter, Stronghold, Electra, Jupiter). The Dutch lost two light cruisers (Java and De Ruyter), two destroyers (Kortenaer and Evertsen). Australia's Navy lost its light cruiser Perth, the armed sloop Yarra. Probable loss of life: about 800 on the Houston, 125 on the Pope...