NEW ZEALAND DEPENDANT ON BRITAIN

Chronicle (Levin), 23 May 1946, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND DEPENDANT ON BRITAIN

• >- MR. NASII'S EMPIRE DAY ADDRESS Received Thursday, 9.10 a.m. LONDON, May 22. Xew Zealanders knew that their ih'i'iests were bound itp with tnose oi everybody else, Mr. Nash declared during the course of an Empire S'lricty address. They knew they c . " j 1 cl not sleep^secure in their beds it uthers were msecure in theirs. Aearession anywliere was the beaimiing of aggression everywhere. TL; y knew their living standards ci oended on the living standards of tli.-ir customers. When they tb'inght of customers they thought oi Rritons, who were most prosperou when living standards through(;ut the world were rising. An impo.crished forcigner never bougnt t'rcm Britain and if Britaiix's exporbs slumped Britons could not buy New Zealand lainb and butter. All considerations pv»inted to New Zf-iiland's supreme interest in U.N O.'s effective functioning. said Mi1. Nash, but it should be rcmem-bfi'-d that U.N.O.'s effectiveness, and ih roadiness to act in a given case, (ku -nded on relations between tne fif'iups of individual members. New Zc. iand should maintain the closcst relations with her most trusted fiT nds, namely, members of the Bnti-.h Commonwealth of Nations, girtieularly — because she was situaf' d in the Pacific — with the United Kiiigf lom, Australia and Canada.