N.Z.’S FOREIGN POLICY

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23916, 7 April 1943, Page 2

N.Z.’S FOREIGN POLICY

«NOT SUBSERVIENT TO BRITAIN” (P.A.) AUCKLAND, April 6. “There have been for many years ideas in the United States that the members of the British Commonwealth of Nations other than the United Kingdom are subservient to and almost im* pelled to follow London’s dictates said the Hon. W. Nash, New Zealand Minister to the United States, in an interview. “I have affirmed that New Zealand has never and will never do what she is told to do. I have affirmed also that if New Zealand is asked by Britain to do anything, such Is her respect for Britain that New. Zealand will do more than she is asked to do,’ New Zealand, he added, had made a contribution to the war effort proportionately as great as that made by any other country outside or inside the British Commonwealth. Her natural outlook fitted her to make a great contribution. . i “There are things necessary for the prosecution of the war, and there can never be any argument in this country whether we should or should not do those things. Our purpose is to resolve to do everything we pan to bring the conflict to a victorious conclusion. We shall never argue who is doing the most.” - . •