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The
history Saving Australia, Curtin’s secret peace
with Japan by Bob Wurth is the previously unpublished
story of the desperate attempts to reach a peace between Japan and
Australia prior to the outbreak of the Pacific war. Saving Australia,
published by Lothian Books, tells of the friendship between Australia’s
wartime leader, John Curtin,fearful of a Japanese invasion, and of
the first Japanese minister, effectively ambassador to Australia,
the enigmatic Tatsuo Kawai.
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The Bulletin magazine,
in a six-page feature of May 2, 2006, says