EXCHANGE OF VIEWS

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 52, 25 November 1941, Page 8

EXCHANGE OF VIEWS

Meeting With Ministers

A conference with the New Zealand Government was held yesterday by Mi. A. Duff Cooper, British Minister to the Far East. In a subsequent interview, Mr. Duff Cooper, who expressed satisfaction with the results of in visit to New Zealand, said that-an exchange of views had taken place between the Ministry and himself, and •that he and the Ministers present had been in absolute and complete agreeReplying to an inquiry as to whether there had been any further developments in connexion witli the proposa--that Britain should 'be represented by ir resident Minister in the Pacific area, Mr. Duff Cooper said he had investigated ' this question and submitted a report on it. to the British Government. Beyond that he had no statement to 11 “As Mr. Churchill has already said, Britain 'is definitely 100 per cent behind America in the Pacific,” said Mr Duff Cooper, when asked if he was able o discuss the question of British aid to America in the event of the United States becoming involved In war m the Pacific. There was, he added, compleftj trust between the Governments of the two countries and no secrets as between the one nation and the other. The United States had already been given the use of bases in the Atlantic and bases would also be imide available in the Pacific if required. However, they might not lie required, because America had already develojied bases in its own territories. Mr. Duff Cooper will leave Wellington this morning by ear -for Auckland.