Office of the Historian

740.0011 Pacific War/1383: Telegram

The Minister in Australia (Johnson) to the Secretary of State

Canberra, December 24, 1941—10 a.m.
[Received 11:21 p.m.]

92. Ministry External Affairs has shown me appeal made yesterday by Prime Minister to President and Churchill83 and asked me to support it. I do most earnestly support Curtin’s statement of the situation. People in the Pacific area await news of definite movement to stop Japanese advances which if permitted to continue threaten to deprive us of every advantage.

Johnson
  1. See supra.↩