Promotion of Cultural Relations in Pacific

Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 6, 8 January 1944, Page 2

Promotion of Cultural Relations in Pacific

MELBOURNE, Jan. G.

Proposals for the appointment of a Joint committee for the promotion of cultural relations between Australia, Now Zealand and the United States are being prepared by Dr. Nevins who is visiting Australia and New Zealand on benalf of the American Office of War information. Dr. Nevins recently spent seven weeks in New Zealaand.

The 0.W.1. wanted more Australian ana 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, Dr. 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 firmly in the Pacific—it seemed possible they might be given complete or partial possession of the Marshill and Caroline Islands—and necessarily would have to work in close partnership with Australia and New Zealand.