COMMON VOICE

New Zealand Herald, Volume 80, Issue 24758, 4 December 1943, Page 6

COMMON VOICE

CONVERSATIONS SOON * - y AUSTRALIA AND DOMINION ffj (Reed. 8.40 p.m.) SYDNEY. Dec. 3 ..'JV; That New Zealand and Australia should speak with one voice in the Pacific was a point emphasised by the ; Minister of External Affairs, Dr. 11. V Evatt, the Minister of Shipping and Supply, Mr. J. A. Beasley, and the newlv-appointed Australian High Commissioner to New Zealand, Mr. 1. G. D'Alton, at a farewell luncheon tendered by the Tasmanian Government to Mr D'Alton to-day. The last-named has been deputy-Premier of Tasmania. "If our two countries speak with one voice our cause will have greater'* • prestige when the future of the Pacitic is decided," said Mr. D'Alton. Dir. Evatt said: "New Zealand and Australia are countries where the social States have been developed almost to the maximum extent possible in the world as we know it. "Somehow or other we have to have these two great Dominions working together for the common objectives of the United Nations. Conversations will start at a very early date on the objectives we have in view." Mr. Beasley said: "New Zealand to-day sits in with Australian and American representatives on all important bodies set up in Australia to deal with resources and supply. Ths battles of the war will be i'ought on the operational fronts, but the success of those battles will be determined by the measure of production on the home fronts." i -