Holt And Johnson ‘See Eye To Eye9

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31112, 15 July 1966, Page 13

Holt And Johnson ‘See Eye To Eye 9

(N.Z.P.A. Reuter—Copyright)

WASHINGTON, July 14.

President Johnson treated the Australian Prime Minister, Mr Harold Holt, to a midnight film show at the White House after a day of talks yesterday.

The screening took place after the President and Mr

Hott had sailed with a group

of East and West European diplomats on a moonlight cruise on the Potomac river aboard the Presidential yacht Sequoia.

When the Sequoia returned to her dock at the Anacostia naval base, the President invited Mr Holt to drive back

with him to the White House

for a cup of coffee and a chat.

He then took him on an In-

spection tour of his private apartments and down to the White House theatre where they watched a film made by Mr Johnson when he was a

naval officer in the Pacific during World War 11, and another of the trip he made to Mexico earlier this year.

Asia Policy The Prime Minister was reported to feel that he and the President saw eye to eye on Vietnamese war strategy and long-term policy for peaceful development in Asia. Mr Holt was beaming when he met the President at the White House yesterday and displayed his delight at returning to Washington from London to confer with him for the second time in two weeks. Sources said that the atmosphere at yesterday’s talks between the two leaders could be summed up in the phrase which Mr Holt used when he was here on June 29 before flying to London to confer with Mr Harold Wilson, “all the way with L.8.J.”

That pledge, they said, applied not only to the move out of the darkness of war and poverty but into a bright, new future.