DOMINION ENVOY
MR NASH AND THE PRESS A SURPRISE FOR REPORTERS WASHINGTON, (Rec. 7.50 p.m.) Feb. 1. The fact that New Zealand's Minister to the United States. Mr W. Nash, held a press conference before he presented his .credentials, might be regarded in some quarters as slightly irregular, but in war-time Washington the usual formalities are not being observed. Mr Nash afforded some laughs in a discussion which, for the most part, was serious. When asked how many Japanese were in New Zealand, he replied: "Three." A reporter observed: "Just the same as the famous Japanese monkeys, of ' See, hear, and speak no evil.'"
Mr Nash made the reporters gasp when he said the maximum tax in New Zealand was 87i per cent, on income in the upper brackets. Since the United States has just instituted a war tax of about, 10 to 15 per cent, for the average man, Mr Nash's figures were impressive. Once, when a reporter doubted that New Zealand heed fear a Japanese attack because it was so .far away, Mr Nash retorted: "So was Pearl Harbour."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24831, 3 February 1942, Page 4
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181DOMINION ENVOY Otago Daily Times, Issue 24831, 3 February 1942, Page 4
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