PACIFIC PACT
FORMATION URGED BY MR SPENDER (Rec. 11.55) SYDNEY, This Day: The Minister of External Affairs, Mr p. C. Spender, urged the formation of a Pacific Pact to counter the advance of -(lommunism in South-east Asia. He said that Britain, Australia, New Zealand and other Commonwealth countries could; form the basis of the pact with the hope of persuading the United States to join them, if not immediately, then later. Mr Spender said that Russia had frustrated the ideals of those who wanted world peace. The United Nations was powerless to act because Russia would seek terms of compromise with other nations. “I do not believe as some do that China will become Nationalist instead of Communist,” he added. “I cannot believe that long discussions between the Chinese rebel Government and Mr Stalin, resulting in a 30 years’ friendship treaty, can ijiean anything else but close cooperation in foreign policy. China will lose in the end.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 109, 21 February 1950, Page 3
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