PEOPLES OF PACIFIC

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 201, 23 May 1944, Page 6

PEOPLES OF PACIFIC

Mr. Wallace’s Mission (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 21. Vice-President Henry Wallace, in a statement on the visit, to Asia which be is undertaking at the behest of President Roosevelt, said: “The object of my trip is to let. our Asiatic friends know the spirit of. the American people and the beliefs and hojies of their Commander-in-Chief. Asia is just as important to the United States as is Europe. We are fighting a determined enemy in the north, south and middle Pacific. “We fight because of Pearl Harbour. We fight to preserve our freedom and for the democracies of Australia, New Zealand and Canada. We fight so that permanent peace, and its blessings, may become safe for that hall' of humanity which has its being on the shores of the world’s greatest ocean. “The two great lands of China and Russia are glorious in the present struggle. Siberia is a great arsenal without which the Russian victories could not have occurred. The Chinese will survive. That resistance has its only counterpart iu the defence of .Stalingrad, Moscow, and Leningrad. “If I may carry to these working and the fighting peoples of Asia something of the confidence and pride which ike American people and their President icel in their magnificent effort, 1 know .be journey will be well undertaken.” Of China Mr. Wallace said: “A new day opens for this great people. The closed door has gone for ever. The future of China belongs to the’ world, and the world in justice and peace shall belong to China. “'rhe Chinese have the right to know that the American people conceive it a duty and a privilege to work and plan with the Chinese nntion*for that permanent peace and prosperity of our Pacific allies which will also make permanent our own peace and prosperity.”