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Bookplate inserted; pp. 48, 129, 132 earmarked; highlight made to passage in margin with pencil: [pp. 132 – 133] “Now, in the South Pacific, Australian and American soldiers are fighting together as comrades. Where is this “mixing up” of the British Commonwealth and the United States going to end? Whither is the current of new intimacies leading us? I do not know its final destination. “Let it roll.” Australia needs American support on her northern and western shores. America needs a strong and friendly Australia to buttress the southern flank of her security in the Pacific Ocean. Australia needs Great Britain’s support in the Indian Ocean. We all need each other. The nations of the Commonwealth do not give each other written guarantees. They know that they can depend on each other for instant aid. They have no right to expect the same kind of aid from the United States. Yet they need American aid, and America needs theirs. Here, in the outer oceans, I foresee an informal growing together of the English-speaking democracies.”