Canadian Paper Gets Mixed Up
MONTREAL, January 29.
The “Daily Star” editorially to-day apologised for its recent headline which “threatened, unofficially, for a few hours, the friendship between New Zealand and Canada.” The Star, in reporting the presentation in Ottawa of a Japanese sword by the New Zealand High Commissioner, Mr James Shorn, to the Canadian Defence Minister, headed its story Jap Sword Presented to Canada, by Aussies. Indignant New Zealanders in Montreal protested to the Star. They explained that New Zealanders were not Aussies, and that while. New Zealand and Australia love one another as brothers in the British Commonwealth of Nations both are proud of their individuality and are hurt when anyone lumps them together.
The Star said in its editorial today that it felt quite sure 'hat no Canadians misunderstood the .story or appreciated any the less New Zealand’s gesture because in one place it had been attributed to Australia. “Canadians remember with glowing admiration that 3000 of New Zealand’s finest young men trained in Canada alongside their Canadian brothers in the Commonwealth air training nlan,” added the Star.
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Grey River Argus, 30 January 1948, Page 7
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