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A Pocket Guide to Australia

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Title	A Pocket Guide to Australia
Rights	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/
Provenance	Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library
Type	Text
Language	English
Relation-Is Part Of	USS LST 325 Memorial Museum Collection
Identifier	122 A Pocket Guide to Austrailia
Subject	Navy Crewmen -- United States.
AudienceMediator	Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library
Description	A guide to Australia saved by a Navel crewman.
Contributors	Funding provided by an Institute of Museum and Library Services grant, administered by the Indiana State Library
Format	Full view: 400 ppi jpg 2000 ; Archived: 400 ppi tif;
Local Item ID	2012.004.1
Coverage	1940-1949

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of "Abos." The lakes you see on Australian maps hardly ever hold any water, they're just dry salt-pans much like parts of our own southwestern desert region. THE PEOPLE "DOWN UNDER" EXCEPT for the 70,000 or so primitive "Abos" who roam the waste lands, the Australians are nearly 100 percent Anglo-Saxon stock—English, Irish, Scotch, and Welsh who through courage and ingenuity made a living and built a great nation out of a harsh, empty land. They built great cities, organized a progressive democracy and established a sound economic system, for all of which they're justly proud. And they're proud too of their British heritage and to be a member of the British Commonwealth—but they still like to run their own business and they take great pride in their independence. They resent being called a colony and think of themselves as a great nation on their own hook, which they are. And it's natural that they should find themselves drawn closer and closer to Americans because of the many things we have in common. They look at the swift development that has made the United States a great power in a few generations, and compare our growth with theirs. Nearly 40 years ago, an Australian statesman said of the United States: "What we are, you 12

A Pocket Guide to Australia

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