ON WAY TO AMERICA

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 303, 22 December 1943, Page 6

ON WAY TO AMERICA

MR. XASH IN AUSTRALIA Rec. 9 a.m. SYDNEY, this day. Australia and New Zealand will have a joint responsibility in maintaining peace in the Pacific after the war, said the New Zealand Minister to the United States, Mr. Walter Nash, in an interview on his arrival from New Zealand to-day en route to Washington. Unity between Australia and New Zealand, he said, was not only desirable but was necessary if these countries were honestly to face up to their responsibilities as guardians of peace and progress in the Pacific. Mr. Nash said he was not in Australia in any official capacity, but he was taking the opportunity of seeing something of the latest developments in Australia's war effdrt before he returned to the United States. He had heard amazing- accounts of Australia's war effort. The New Zealand Press was full of praise for the magnificent fighting of the Australian troops in New Guinea. He recently completed a tour of the South Pacific battle stations, where New Zealanders were engaged. The fame of the A.I.F. was well known to New Zealanders in the Solomons. He said he would not have time to visit the Australian war plants, but he intended to call on Mr. Curtin and some of the Cabinet Ministers.