MR FRASER ABROAD

Evening Star, Issue 24285, 28 August 1942, Page 3

MR FRASER ABROAD

ARRIVAL IN WASHINGTON PRAISE FOR AMERICAN TROOPS , WASHINGTON, August 26. The New Zealand Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, was welcomed at an airport by many officials, including the Secretary of State (Mr Cordell Hull), the British Ambassador (Lord Halifax), and the New Zealand Minister to Washington (Mr Walter Nash). “ I am very glad to be in Washington at this time,” Mr Fraser said. “I bring a message from the American boys down under. In the last few ’ weeks I have seen them in Australia and elsewhere, and you can he certain that they are doing their best. They are very efficient and on the friendliest terms with the people. _ They have created the finest impression, and_ we love them very much. The American boys are doing admirable work in the Solomons, New Guinea, and elsewhere, and I can assure their parents that the boys are very highly regarded and well received everywhere.” Mr Fraser radiated energy, greeting everyone with a cheerful smile in spite of a report from other members of the party that they had been in the air for 60 liours. Mr Fraser, accompanied by Brigadier-general J. P. Hurley, will tonight attend a White House dinner, and they will be overnight guests of the President.,

The President’s secretary, Mr Stephen Early, said that owing to the Duke of Kent’s death cancellation of the dinner was discussed, but after consulting the British Embassy it was decided to proceed and make the function informal and in the nature of a business meeting rather than a social function.