![]() It was, understandably, a time of generalised fear – and not just about the war. ![]() ![]() Shaw notes that all through the 1930s, many Anglophile Australians embraced Japan as a reliable trading partner, even as they blamed the US for the Great Depression.Ĭurtin, however, had declared that Australia would look to the US (“free of any pangs as to our traditional links or kinship with the United Kingdom”) and so, in 1942, a sprawling American tent city, “Camp Pell”, sprang up in Royal Park near the zoo. In a letter to the prime minister, John Curtin, prominent anthropologist Prof AP Elkin explained that “people … in touch with the business world” were telling him that “our leading business and financial folk” would capitulate because they preferred a Japanese victory to a Labor government. ![]()
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