AUSTRALIA AND U.S.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 125, 29 May 1942, Page 5

AUSTRALIA AND U.S.

"Just A Single Dedication To A Single Ideal" CLOSER POST-WAR UNION Rec. 2 p.m. MELBOURNE, this day. "I feel we are going to have a victory here. In fact, I am sure of it," said Mr. W. S. Wasserman, leader of the United States Lease-Lend Mission to Australia, in a speech. "I have found very little to criticise in Australia and a great deal to praise. There should be no spheres, just a single dedication to a single ideal and command. There must never be any question as to whether this is an Australian or American job. It is an Allied job, which has to be done. I feel certain that petty distinctions will disappear in the magnitude of the effort before us."

Mr. Wasserman said that he was convinced that a post-war depression need not be feared if the vast machinery of wartime production was later converted to produce wealth for everybody. To put that machinery to work, goodwill, freedom of exchange ana the development of Lease-Lend principles would be needed.

He hoped when the battle was over that many of the' distinctions and boundaries which had kept Australia and America apart would be eliminated. Americans had always felt that Australians were their nearest and closest British cousins.