WAR EFFORT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 156, 30 December 1944, Page 7

WAR EFFORT

DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA ' Rec. 12.30 p.m. CANBERRA, Dec. 29. Mr. Ward Johnson should have a talk with General Mac Arthur. He would then revise his opinion, about Australia s war effort," said the Minister of Home Security, Mr. Lazzarini, : oday; ■-» Mr- Lazzarini and the Minister of Munitions,, Mr. N. J. O. Makin were replying to criticism by Mr; Johnf ? n -'* Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, of what Australia was doing in the war. Mr. Johnson visited Australia recently as a member of the House' of Representatives Naval Affairs Committee. "I feel sure that our friends in ■ America, and throughout the. world would sooner accept an assessment of Australia s war effort from General Mac Arthur than the estimate of one who made a 25,000-mile tour of the Pacific m a few days and returned home claiming to be a well-informed authority," said Mr ; Makin. "Genera! '■ Mac Arthur, however, has a comprehensive and intimate knowledge of ' what Australia has done and will con- ' tmue to do to the utmost of her resources. ! "Unfortunately, Australia has suffer- { ed far too frequently from hurried ■ tourists who pass through the country in what is equivalent to a flying visit and then elect to write volumes on Australia, a subject about which they know very little." - Mr Johnson said that Australians had done splenaid woidc. but had now { relaxed and felt out Bf danger. He criticised the short Saturday and 430 • p.m. closing. They felt that the war < Sfld nSndTe aw^l^e Americans , J-'- - ' -■;■ ■ " I