MR. MENZIES’ TRIP

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 January 1941, Page 7

MR. MENZIES’ TRIP

LONDON PRESS COMMENT. [BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.] RUGBY, January 15. Welcoming the announcement that Mr. Menzies will shortly visit London, “The Times” remarks that under Mr. Menzies’ leadership Australia has made and is making a contribution to the common effort Wlncil is worthy of her traditions and the spirit of her people. “In this war, Australian fighting men and Australian supplies of food and raw material are playing a part as invaluable as m the last war, and in addition, Australian industry, enormously developed in the past 25 years, is now taking a full share of the strain. In all this effort, the Commonwealth Government acted throughout, in close accord with Britain; as, for instance, in the Erfipire air training scheme, and at the Delhi conference on supply, with other Governments of the Empire. * “Personal contact is always of importance in co-operative action. Mr. Menzies cannot have found it easy to arrange for a long absence in view of the political difficulties caused by the recent general election. General Smuts can hardly bp spared at present from South Africa, where, in addition to handling a delicate situation in the Union itself, he is directing the South African forces operating against the Italians on the Kenya border. Nevertheless, his recent meeting with Mr. Eden on his visit to the troops was clearly of the greatest value, and we need not-despair at seeing him and other Dominion Prime Ministers in London, as'soon' as opportunity offers 'and circumstances permit.” The “Daily Tele'grapli” says that while the visit to London of the Australian Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) is likely to be followed later in the year by visits by other leading representatives of the Dominions, it is understood that there is no intention at present of holding an Imperial Conference or forming an Imperial War Cabinet.