BRITAIN’S POLICY ON UNION

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25590, 3 September 1948, Page 7

BRITAIN’S POLICY ON UNION

COMMENT BY U.S. NEWSPAPER AUSTRALIA AND N.Z. ASKED TO PRESS FOR SUPPORT (Rec. 8 p.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 1. “Australia and New Zealand,, it will be remembered, were years in advance of the Mother Country in favouring measures to restrain Axis aggression,” says the “St. Louis Post-Dispatch,” in a leading article on European federation. It says that Mr Chifley and Mr •Fraser would “serve a great cause if in similar fashion they now urged upon Britain the obligation not to hold back and to play her natural role toward unifying Europe.” Expressing surprise that Mr Attlee had mentioned the difficulties of reconciling Britain’s membership of the British Commonwealth with membership in a European union, the “PostDispatch” says: “Admittedly this poses some problems, but, like the United States, Australia and New Zealand would like to be freed of the recurrent obligation to raise forces to fight in European wars, which at least could be made less likely by European consolidation ”