Australia Comes Out Scratchy

The National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated independent stations present the Pacific Story. This is the story of the Pacific, the drama of the millions of people who live around this latest sea where the United States is now committed to a long-term policy of securing the peace.

This is the background story of the events in the Pacific and their meaning to us and to the generations to come. Tonight's Pacific Story comes to you as another public service with drama the past and present and a brief talk by Dr. Herbert Bier-Ebitz, foreign minister for Australia, who has been representing Australia on the Far Easton Commission at Washington.

Australia comes out. The place Australia will occupy in the Pacific from now on will never be the same as it was before the war.

These were the words of Australia's great wartime prime minister John Curtin, and in these words are a world of meaning. Ask this Australian. It means that once we could regard the oceans to the east and the west and the south as most to protect us from the check.

We know now that these oceans are really great distances over which help us count. Or ask this Australian. Once we could think of the chain of islands north of us as back as a game to text.

We know now that they can all to be used as stepping stones to Australia. Or ask this Australian. Once we could think of ourselves as tied to the world by the long ocean routes to London.

We know now that our predominant interests must lie in the Pacific. Australia has come of age. The seven million whites who occupy the continent of Australia, about the size of the United States, have cut off with themselves a new role to play in the affairs of the Pacific.