MAY VISIT N.Z.
MR. WENDELL WILLKIE.
invitation supported
(P.A.) WELLINGTON", Tuesday. If Mr Wendell Willkie is able to «wept an Invitation extended to him to visit Australia he is to be invited by the New Zealand Government to make a Vu3it to the Dominion. Mr. Willkie re<*mtly returned to America from a visit to Great Britain and Ireland. A few days ago it w&a reported that there was a possibility of him visiting Chiiia, but it was later announced this was now unlikely. A cable message from Sydney stated that the acting-Prime Minister of Aus* tralia, Mr. A. W. Fadden, had announced that the Commonwealth Government had invited Mr. Willkie to visit Australia. Tfot Government waa awaiting advice tegarding Mr. Willkie's intentions on his return to New York this week. "We will certainly aupport the invitation," *aid the Prime Minister, the Rt. H6n. t. trktet. When this evening if the New Zetland Government was llk*ly to ask Mr. Willkie to eOrtie to New 2eaiand id the event of him being able to aftoept thfc intitAtion to Australia. "W® will be very glad to welcome him, or, for that matter, any representative public man from America."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 48, 26 February 1941, Page 11
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