PEACETIME NEED

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 174, 20 April 1942, Page 6

PEACETIME NEED

English-Speaking Peoples’ Co-operation (Bi’iiiisli Ollicial Wireless.) RUGBY. Anril 17. Emphasizing Hie need for close, continuous and increasing co-operation between tlie English-speaking peoples, Mr, It. G. Casey, the new Minister in Cairo, in a Press interview in London, declared that in such co-operation lay the only possible future for the world botli in war and peace. This co-operation included not only direct inter-imperia) liaison, but also close individual liaison between the individual dominions and the United States. Mr. Casey Said that before long we would certainly see a large, progressive impact of Hie United States forces and equipment which was going to impress itself on the enemy on very much more than one front. He touched on a certain luck of appreciation in the United States of the British war effort, and said Hmt in his opinion tills was due to the "inherent British tendency to understatement.” In connexion witli bis own appointment, he said lie welcomed it. "I am an Australian," lie remarked, "and always will be an Australian, but it is a good idea to mix a hit.” The urea within tlie scope of his new appointment would range from Hie Western Desert through Egypt, tlie Sudan, the Levant, Palestine. Iraq am! Iran, anil down the Red Sea.

Regarding Hie strategic position in tin? Pacific, Mr. Casey said it must be assumed that Japan could, if she desired, undertake simultaneous offensives against India and Australia. The American point of view regarding the Pacific a s a vital theatre of war was wholehearted, and she was determine'! sooner or later to reinstate the previous position in the Far East.