government. The Australian presence also included a team of military advisers. They were far more widely distributed. The strongly visual domino metaphor, whose chilling image struck fear into the hearts and minds of millions across the Western world, was originally stated in a speech of President Eisenhower in 1954. Yet the origins for the fear which underlined this enunciation had been steadily gaining voice from early in the 1950s.
             Essentially, the domino theory held that if one nation in the Pacific "fell" to communism, then the impetuous created by such an event would facilitate the demise of neighboring countries. This chain reaction was said to be reminiscent of dominos, the momentum of the first toppling the second, and the second, through its momentum toppling the next in an unstoppable journey. The endpoint in this reaction was believed to be the southern countries of Australia and New Zealand. Consequently, the government argued that it was imperative for Australia to pursue a policy of "forward defense", whereby Australia would fight the Communist threat in other countries to stem its advance and negate the necessity of ever fighting on Australian soil. The argument was persuasive, appealing to the intuition of Western minds who had not learn
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