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Show Australia and its 14,500,000 people is a long way away, but many Americans know them as close and valuable allies for good reason. Australians , have fought alongside Americans Amer-icans in every major conflict in which we have been involved in-volved this century, including includ-ing World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam. I T-Ajkil I In World War I, 416,800 Australian soldiers all volunteerssuffered vol-unteerssuffered a casualty rate of 63 percent, including almost 60,000 killed. In World War II, almost a million mil-lion Australians served all over t,h world and suffered 50,000 casualties. A founder member of the United Nations, Australia regards its friendship with , the United States as a centerpiece center-piece of its foreign policy, and has said so many times. The partnership is formalized in the,A N z u S Treaty, signed 30 years ago. One of the few such treaties Australia has ever signed, the pact says that in the rase of armed attar k on the United States, Australia or New Zealand, the ot.hr-rs "will act to meet the common danger" each in ar-r:ord;incp with its constitutional con-stitutional procesn. r |