EMPIRE COUNCIL
MR. CURTIN’S PLANS POLICY IN THE PACIFIC (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Nov. 23. In the course of a press conference in Wellington this morning the British press delegation. leader, Sir Walter Layton, was questioned in regard to. the proposal of the Australian Prime Minister, Mr. J. Curtin, for an Empire Council. “I think it is very desirable to have closer consultations and for the Empire to know exactly where it stands before it launches off into the troubles of the peace,” he said. “It is most desirable that there should be no feeling within the Empire and for consultations to take place in advance. Mr. Curtin’s point is that the foreign policy af the Empire may land Australia in war in the Pacific, as indeed it has, and Australia naturally feels that, being a country on a spot, which can have its finger on the pulse of events in the Pacific, it should be consulted in advance or even lead in Imperial affairs in the Pacific No one at Home could even challenge that view. The thing is how to do it again. New Zealand and Australia are interested in Europe and should be in at an early stage in the discussions. The problem is how to get the mechanics of some organisation to bring that about.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21260, 24 November 1943, Page 4
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