CULTURAL LINK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 January 1944, Page 2

CULTURAL LINK

BETWEEN UNITED STATES & DOMINIONS. ( JOINT COMMITTEE PROPOSED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) MELBOURNE, January 6. Proposals for the appointment of a joint committee for the promotion of cultural relations between Australia, New Zealand and the United States are being prepared by Dr. Allan Nevins. who is visiting Australia and New Zealand on behalf of the American Office of War Information. Dr. Nevins recently spent seven weeks in New Zealand. The Office of War Information wanted more Australian and New Zealand univeritsy scholars arid teachers to go to American universities after the war and he hoped American university men would be invited to Australia and New Zealand, Dr. Nevins said. li whs hoped also that some arrangeirient 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 Marshall and Caroline islands—and necessarily would have to work-in close partnership with Australia and New Zealand.