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AUSTRALIA’S ATTITUDE GERMAN DELAY A LESSON SYDNEY, Dec. 15. Australia could not submit to any procedure under which the Commonwealth would not be accorded the status of a principal party from the outset of the peace negotiations with Japan, said the Minister of External Affairs, Dr. H. V. Evatt. Admitting the supreme leadership of the United States, he added that no other nation had contributed more than Australia to the defeat of Japan. The view of the British Government that all countries which had helped to defeat Japan and which had vital Pacific interests would take part in the preliminary conference to draft the peace treaty was in strict accordance not only with the understanding reached at the Canberra conference in August, but with the proposal made by the United States in July.
The practice of the Council of Foreign Ministers in excluding active participants like Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa from the preliminary discussions had undoubtedly contributed to delays over the peace settlement for Europe. There should not be a repetition of that situation in the Pacific.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22512, 16 December 1947, Page 7
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