DOMINIONS AND AMERICA

Evening Star, Issue 25068, 8 January 1944, Page 6

DOMINIONS AND AMERICA

PROMOTION OF CULTURAL RELATIONS MELBOURNE, January 6. Proposals for the appointment of a joint committee for the promotion of cultural relations between Australia. New'Zealand, and the United States are being prepared by Mr Allan Nevins who is visiting Australia and New Zealand on behalf of the American Office of War Information Mr Nevins recently spent seven weeks in rsew Zealand. * , $ r , .. The Office of War Information wanted more Australian arid New Zealand university scholars and teachers to go to American universities after the war, and hoped that American university men would be invited to Australia and New Zealand, Mr Nevins said. It was hoped also that some arrangement might be made for temporary exchanges of journalists, and that more Australian and New Zealand medical students would go to American hospitals. It was evident that after the war the United States would be planted more firmlv in the Pacific—it seemed possible that they might be given complete or partial possession of the Marshall and Caroline Islands—and necessarily would have to work in close partnership with Australia and New Zealand.