cont'd ...

I'll try again:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/inquirer/the-citizens-guide-to-war-when-japan-threatened-australia/news-story/Oe542f479492d104564d00d963e4c2fb

Ooops and again:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/inquirer/the-citizens-guide-to-war-when-japan-threatened-australia/news-story/Oe542f479492d1O4564dOOd963e4c2fb

mhaze,

My apologies. I did try.

However if you put in :

"Australia prepared a secret plan to repel a Japanese
invasion." The site should come up. And clarify things
for you.

You're welcome.

Mhaze, you attack me saying; "That people like Paul still believe it shows just how easily some people are fooled if they really really want to be." Relying on your orthodox high school history account of the events of the time. I rely on hours of discussions I've had with many who experienced those times. Contrary to your opinion that Japan never intended to capture Australia, in 1942 Australians were overwhelmingly fearful of an imminent Japanese invasion.
It unpalatable to many Liberals, even today, that their much revered founder 'Pig Iron' Bob was seen as a defeatist at best, and for some, certainly by today's standards, a traitor to the nation.

Hi Foxy, thanks for that info, 'Scorched Earth' Sue Rosen, my local Library does not have a copy, but there are 5 copies elsewhere (according to the internet catalogue), so I'll get one sent over for me, costs 80c. We have a terrific library in Brisbane, much better than was my local in Sydney. I try to read a book a week, sometimes it takes two weeks. Nice little book this week 'The Voyages of Captain Cook' Anthony Cornish. Getting prepared for the 250th anniversary of Cookie sailing into Botany Bay, 28th April 2020. I will put up a discussion on that, and what I think of it, and what we should do with all those Cookie like monuments we have pigeons pooing on in parks and gardens etc. My opinion might possibly upset the Forums grumpy old men. I hope not, but what's new.

Foxy wrote: " It [the book] covers Australian
planning in response to a feared Japanese invasion of
Australia during World War II. The Brisbane Line is
covered in it. "

Yes it is covered. And it adds precisely nothing to what we already knew about Menzies and the Brisbane Line myth that Paul adheres to.

Nothing.

And the article you struggled so hard to retrospectively find equally adds nothing new to the myth and essentially supports what I said about the myth that Paul so wants to be true.

And what was that? that there was a policy in 1942 to not defend those parts of Australia north of Brisbane and west of the Darling but that policy had precisely nothing to do with Menzies or UAP government. Nothing.

Paul wrote:"Contrary to your opinion that Japan never intended to capture Australia, in 1942 Australians were overwhelmingly fearful of an imminent Japanese invasion."

Now Paul, it is very true that people were fearful of an invasion. People assumed it was coming. But, and this might be hard for you to follow, the question as to whether Japan intended to invade has nothing to do with Australian's fear of invasion. It all comes down to whether the Japanese intended to invade. And they didn't. They had no intention and no ability to invade. That you talk to people who lived through it and thought otherwise doesn't make it so, in the same way that my grand-daughter's view that there are monsters in the attic doesn't make it so.

Equally, that some people might have bought the notion that Menzies proposed the Brisbane Line doesn't make it so, especially when all the evidence , and I mean ALL the evidence, shows otherwise

Mhaze, glad you were privy to the inner thoughts of the Japanese War Council during WWII. Emperor Hirohito only had to order it to be so, and it was so. Did the war criminal Hirohito want to invade Australia, well you don't know and I don't know. Total domination of a Greater Asia economic zone seemed to be the Japanese objective. Something like the Chinese and the US today. A most interesting period of history.