DOMINION DAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 230, 27 September 1940, Page 8

DOMINION DAY.

ADDRESS AT NEW YORK Part Of Australia And N.Z. In Defence Of Pacific. United Press Association. —Copyright. (Reed. 2 p.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 26. The Marquess of Lothian, British Ambassador to Washington, in a Dominion Day address in the New Zealand Pavilion at the World's Fair, said: "I doubt if many Americans realise the significance of New Zealand and Australia from the viewpoint of the United States security and defence of the Pacific.

"Some regard them as isolated nations, looking for help from outside. It is true that both rely mainly on the British Navy for long-distance defence, but are able to contribute much for the security of the Pacific from their own strength. "Their air forces alone are turning out 2i»,000 trained airmen annually. If the dictators challenge the securitj' of Singapore, the Dutch islands or the Southern Pacific, they will encounter formidable resistance from New Zealand's and Australia's ever-growing and organised strength. "New Zealand inaugurated half a century ago many social reforms which are now commonplace, in every modern democracy. The Dominion has not succumbed to the philosophy of pacifism in international affairs o. - the preoccupation for individual comfort which rotted many democracies. "It is making efforts much more even than in the World War to defend free civilisation against totalitarian aggression." He outlined New Zealand's and Australia's war effort, and recalled that the Achilles was manned by New Zealanders.