TO BE INVITED TO N.Z.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 48, 26 February 1941, Page 6

TO BE INVITED TO N.Z.

MR. WENDELL WILLKIE HE MAY GO TO AUSTRALIA [ Per Press Association. ] WELLINGTON, Feb. 25. If Mr. Wendell Willkie, United States Republican Leader, is able to accept an invitation extended to him to visit Australia he is to be invited by the New Zealand Government to make a visit to the Dominion. Mr. Willkie recently returned to the United States from a visit co Great Britain and Ireland. A few days ago it was reported that there was a possibility of him visiting China, but it was later announced that this was now unlikely. A cable message from Sydney published to-day stated that the acting-Prime Minister of Australia. Mr. A. W. Fadden, had announced that the Commonwealth Government had invited Mr. Willkie to visit Australia. The Government was awaiting advice regarding Mr. Wilikie’s intentions on his return to New York this week. ‘‘We will certainly support the invitation,” said the New Zealand Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. P. Fraser, when asked this evening if the New Zealand Government was likely to ask Mr. Willkie to come to New Zealand in the event of him being able to accept an invitation to Australia. ‘‘We will be very glad to welcome him here, or, for that matter, any representative public man from America.”