Saturday, April 22, 2006

'Japan is Australia's greatest enemy'

27 Mr Torao Wakamatsu, Japanese Consul-General in Sydney, Letter 17 February 1939 to Mr J.A. Lyons, Prime Minister
"Furthermore, anti-Japanese feeling and Japanophobia have spread so widely among the Australian people - even among school children - that, according to the enclosed cuttings from the Sydney 'Daily Telegraph' of November 18th, 1938, a correspondent received an unanimous reply that 'Japan is Australia's greatest enemy', as one of the answers to a questionnaire put to school children in Sydney."

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