Mr. President. that frontier line. patrolled by cruisers. submarines. and airplanes. would be so strong that no one would dare to attack it. and if the Japanese people. for whom I have friendship and respect. should attempt to break that line. in 24 hours their great fishing industry in the Pacific Ocean would be wiped out. Operating by airplanes through that line the United States could safely secure the white people in Australia and New Zealand if they were ever threatened with Asiatic conquest. I do not mean to infer we should ever anticipate any Japanese war. On the contrary. I can see no cause that should ever involve us in conflict with them. Mr. President. while I for one shall ever be opposed to protecting the -colonial possessions of Great Britain among the Hindus. the Africans. the Chinese. the South Sea Islanders. the Asiatics. in fact all over the world. so far as the Canadian people are concerned. and so far as New Zealand and Australia are concerned. we could assume that burden with the .certainty that our own military position would be strengthened by such commitment. Yes. I believe that the Monroe Doctrine should be so interpreted as to apply to New Zealand and Australia. as well -as Canada. because we would thereby place ourselves and their peoples alike in an impregnable position from attack from the Asiatic Continent. That is one of the reasons. Mr.
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Asiatic Asiatics