LONG TALK WITH PRESIDENT

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 289, 4 September 1942, Page 6

LONG TALK WITH PRESIDENT

Mr. Fraser’s Visit

DEPARTS TO CANADA TODAY x (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.— Copyright.) (Received September 3, 11.50 p.m.) WASHINGTON, September 3. It is officially disclosed that the New Zealand Prime Minister, Mr. Fraser, is to depart for Canada tomorrow, where a one-day conference is scheduled with Mr. Mackenzie King, the Canadian Prime Minister.

Thence Mr. Fraser will directly return .to New Zealand. Officials said that he is not going to London. Mr. Fraser, after attending yesterday’s meeting of the Pacific Council, was closeted in a long private talk with' President Roosevelt. Later he held a conference with Sir Philip Murray, president of.the Congress of Industrial Organizations, and was then the guest at a special reception at the New Zealand Legation, where 300 officials of the United Nations were present, including Lord Halifax, M. Litvinov and Mr. Soong, the British, Soviet and Chinese representatives. RENEWED PLEDGE New Zealand’s Efforts Toward Victory WAR’S THIRD ANNIVERSARY “On the third anniversary of the outbreak of war New Zealand people will, I know, desire to renew their pledge to continue this struggle for however long till victory is achieved, and to count, no sacrifice i too great to achieve, that end,” said ’ the Prime Minister, Mr. Fraset, in a statement in ,

Washington yesterday. “I feel that I can say- with truth to the Government a'nd the people of the United States,” added Mr., Fraser, ‘•that we in New Zealand are undeterred by disappointment and losses < which are inevitable in the circumstances in which war was forced upon . up, that we look forward with confi- ■ deuce to the ultimate outcome, and that our main- desire is to march with the other United Nations in the . cause of justice and liberty.”