ROLE OF AUSTRALIA

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 121, 18 November 1943, Page 6

ROLE OF AUSTRALIA

LONDON, November 17. The leader of Australia^ delegation to the United Nations' Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, Sir Owen Dixon, said today that representatives of members of the British Commonwealth hoped to contribute something towards successful planning for the liberated peoples. He stressed the fact that the freeing of Europe would not mean the end of the war. For Australia, the defeat of Germany would mean the opening of a new phase in which all the might of the Allies would be concentrated against Japan. It was when that took place that Australia expected to make her greatest contribution to the common cause. While continuing to supply essential foods and materials to Britain and to the British, American, and Australian fighting forces, the Dominion hoped also to be able to contribute something to the relief of Europe. Another delegate to the conference said it was estimated there were 21,000,000 displaced persons in Europe, and after the war there would be the greatest mass migration in history. He said the administration wanted to establish a. health command in fighting epidemics in liberated countries and to direct the migration through cities where food and suitable controls against disease were provided.