WAR IN PACIFIC

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 23, 27 July 1944, Page 4

WAR IN PACIFIC

AMERICA'S GREAT POWER

When he Avas asked during an intervieiv last night if he had any opinion to express on the probable length of the war in the Pacific in the light of recent events, the Minister of Finance (Mr. Nash) ivas not draAvn into making any prophecy, but he was obviously enthusiastic about the progress made in the Pacific during the last twelve months.

Mr. Nash recalled that he had said in April, 1943, that when the American forces struck the Japanese, which he had thought would be by the end of that year, they would wonder what had happened. "I knew Avhat the Americans had got; it Avas simply amazing, and they have still got it," he added. "They havo lost hardly anything of it. The best sign I have seen without being optimistic about the finish of the Avar is that there is obviously disintegration in Japan and Germany." Mr. Nash did not elaborate to any extent on the comments he made shortly after his arrival in Wellington on the International Monetary Conference, because he is to make a full report to Parliament. He emphasised that there Avas not a shadow of a commitment about anything that had been done at the conference.