GREETINGS TO GENERAL MACARTHUR

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 21, 26 January 1943, Page 4

GREETINGS TO GENERAL MACARTHUR

Birthday greetings to General Douglas Mac Arthur, who is 63 today, were sent today by .the Prime Minister (Mr. Fraser). "Please accept my personal greetings on the occasion of your birthday," wrote Mr. Fraser. "The successful efforts of the forces under your able command —both American and Australianhave been watched with the greatest enthusiasm in this Dominion, and the New Zealand people will, I feel sure, join with me in wishing you every success and all good fortune in the fateful year that lies ahead."

I signify the, relationship, was not very popular in New Zealand, for very natural reasons, but the word Anzac, which had been born in the throes on Gallipoli, represented a unity which was greater and more lasting than any other. Dr. Merrington went on to speak of the importance of bringing the Anzac spirit into all their relationships— economic, social, and political. "That spirit can be transplanted from the battlefields to the fields of national life," he said. "The future calls for the utmost effort towards victory and a peace that will be worthy of the name, j That peace, however, will bring fresh problems, including- the settlement of larger populations in Australia and New Zealand, if these | countries are to be held by the young j nations growing up. "The celebration today, attended by the Prime Minister, is a good, good augury for the . future constructive measures for safeguarding and advancing the cause of our young nations as an integral part of the great Empire, which has enabled us to obtain justice and freedom and all the constitutional privileges of nationhood."