AUSTRALIA ABROAD

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 103, 29 October 1945, Page 7

AUSTRALIA ABROAD

Rec. 10 a.m. CANBERRA^ October 28,

Australian diplomatic * representatives are expected to be appointed to northern and southern European States and in the Middle East next year.

The expansion of diplomatic representation is expected because of the increased direct- Australian participation in the affairs of these areas through close association with the Council of Foreign Ministers. The Australian membership of the Far Eastern Advisory Commission is also likely to result in the appointment of representatives in the "near north," including Malaya, the Netherlands Indies, Thailand, and French Indo-China. :

"Seventhly, all nations should have the freedom of the seas and equal, rights to the navigation of boundary rivers,' waterways, and rivers and waterways passing through more, than one country"Eighthly, all States accepted in the society of nations should have equal access to world trade and raw materials.

"Ninthly, the sovereign States of the Western Hemisphere, without interference from outside the hemispheres, must work together as good neighbours in the solution of common.problems.

ECONOMIC COLLABORATION,

"Tenthly, full economic collaboration between all nations, great and small, is essential to the improvement of living conditions throughout the world and'to the establishment of freedom from fear and freedom from want.

"Eleventhly, we shall continue to strive for more freedom of expression and religion throughout the peaceloving areas of the world. "Lastly, we are convinced that the preservation of peace requires a United Nations Organisation composed of all peace-loving nations who are willing jointly to use force, if it is necessary, to ensure peace. "That is the foreign policy with which the United States confidently faces the future. It may take a long time to achieve, but it is worth striving to attain. "The world cannot afford to let down in the united determination of the Allies to accomplish a lasting 'peace, and cannot let the co-operative spirit disintegrate. The people in the United States, Russia; Britain, France, and China, in collaboration with all other peace-loving people, must take the course of current history into their own hands and mould it in the new direction of continued co-operation. Common danger united us before victory. Let common hope continue.. to draw us together in the years to come.

OPENED NEW ERA

"The atomic bombs which fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki must be made a signal, not of the old process of falling apart, but of a new era of ever closer unity and" friendship among peaceful nations.

"The differences existing today between the nations that fought together so long and so valiantly for victory are not hopeless or irreconcilable, but their solution will require a combination of forbearance', firmness, and willingness to find common ground as to th: methods of applying the high principles I have enunciate^

"The atomic bomb does not alter the United States' basic foreign policy, but makes the development of the appli-

Rec. 11 am

Pandit Nehru .commenting on President Truman's speech, said it would help to some extent to lessen the doubts regarding . American policy which had arisen in. the minds of the peoples of Asia and Africa.

Mere announcements, however, would not go far when an active interpretation of policy wu needed.