Are Australian voters ready for the costs of great-power rivalry in the Indo-Pacific?
Japan’s troops were sweeping all before them in 1941, the Australian prime minister, John Curtin, made a desperate turn. Cutting the last bonds of colonial fealty, he issued this plea: “Australia looks to America, free of any pangs as to our traditional links or kinship with the United Kingdom.”
It is, for now, less conspicuous than recent progress in the bilateral relationship. Much pomp attended the American warship, when she entered Sydney harbour to be commissioned on July 22nd. Escorted by her Australian namesake,she was the first American warship commissioned in a foreign country. The two vessels, named after an Australian cruiser sunk in 1942, are symbols of burgeoning ties. This weektilt-rotor aircraft aboard.
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