HOME OFFICE APPEAL

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 62, 14 March 1944, Page 5

HOME OFFICE APPEAL

Travel Cut As Supreme Effort Of The War PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE Rec. 1 p.m. RUGBY, Mar. 13. The Home Office, announcing restrictions on travel between Eire and Great Britain, expresses confidence that the public will understand that the military considerations which require their imposition are at present of paramount importance and will accept them and the hardships necessarily entailed with goodwill as part of their contribution to the supreme effort of the war that is to come. The restrictions will be removed as soon as military considerations permit, and persons compelled to postpone their visits home will be given an opportunity of making the journey as soon as may be expedient after trie restrictions are lifted. Similar restrictions on the leave of Service personnel are being imposed. The ban is conclusive proof of the close co-ordination of policy between London and Washingttpn. The Press draws comparisons with Spam and Argentina, where the United Nations took steps to bring home to the Governments concerned the dangers inherent in the presence on neutral soil of espionage networks disguised as diplomatic or commercial missions.