Will Always Find A Friend In United States

Chronicle (Levin), 2 March 1949, Page 5

Will Always Find A Friend In United States

Received Tuesdav, 7.30 p.m. SYDNEY, March 1. "You can take it from me that ir. the event of a future eonfiiet, America will be with Ihe British Commonwi'alth, " said Brigadier-Gencral Robert T:-ivis, general offieer eommanding the United States Paeific Air Command. who landed at Mascot aerodrome, Syd-m-v, today with a staff of 14 men, in his offieial Skymaster transport. Briga-)ii-r Travis is well over six feet tall uinl weighs 15 stone "I would like Australians to know tliat they liave a friend in America — a friend whose interests are yours, ' ' he '•"iitinued. " We in the United States are doing all we ean to keep both the British UommonweaJth and United States linked in everv way." Asked if America would consider a pieventive war, he said: "Much as we are damned by eertain nations, we shall Wiiit until we are liit lirst — although I admit it is a dangerous poiicy. America v\oidd never wage a preventive war. "•lapan is making a eomebaek under Ariicriean guidance and there seems no i'e~critment of us as eonquerors. ''1 would say the world situation is qnieter now tlian it was a year ago.7' The goodwill mission, which has coiitpleted an inspection of air facilities in .Jii])an, China and the Philippines, Will visit Melbourne, Tasmatfia and kew Zealand before flying to Samoa.