AMERICAN REBUKE

Hutt News, Volume 19, Issue 9, 1 August 1945, Page 9

AMERICAN REBUKE

NEW ZEALAND AND SECURITY SAN FRANCISCO INCIDENT "Australian and Maoriland accounts of the 'Frisco conference picture Bert Evatt and Pete Fraser as always scoring in argument," comments the Sydney Bulletin. "Doubts intrude after the reading of American reports, particularly one in which Newsweek describes how Senator Connally, from Texas, justified the powers vested in the Security Council, 'which the New Zealanders wanted to weaken.' " The Bulletin quotes the American paper as follows:—"Slowly rising to rhetorical heights, Connally demanded 'Where would Eisenhower be today if he had to seek the approval of all the United Nations before landing in Normandy? Pointing an accusing finger at Carl A. Berendsen, the New Zealand delegate, lie thundered, 'And you, Mr. Berendsen, where would you be today if the [United States had had to ask the | United Nations for permission to defend your country, even before the South Pacific had run red with Amer ican blood?' " "Berendsen was at Canberra for a time," adds the Bulletin. "Like the zealots rebuked by Cromwell, and, like Herbert Vere Evatt, he gave the impression of being incapable of entertaining the thought that he could possibly be wrong about anything."