WARM WELCOME

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 28 August 1942, Page 4

WARM WELCOME

MR FRASER AT WASHINGTON dinner at white iioi >i Washington. Aug 26. , Mr Fraser, Prime Minister of New Zealand, was onthu insfically weicom ed at the airport by many official, in eluding Mr Cordell Hull. S<-cr lary oi State, Lord Halifax, Britisii Ambassador, and Mr Walter Nash. New Zea 1 land representative. M. Fraser said: ; “I am very glad to be in Washington lat this time. I bring a message from i the American boys ‘down under.’ In the last few weeks I saw them in Ausi tralia and elsewhere. You can be cer j tain they arc doing their be t They j are very efficient and on the friendliest | terms wiili the people. They have creatj ed the finest impression arid we love : theni very much. American boys are j doing admirable work in the Solomons. , i New Guinea and elsewhere. I can a? ! sure parents that their boy* are very highly regarded and well received I everywhere.” Mr Fraser radiated energy, greeting everyone with a cheerful -mile, despite a report from other members <>f the party that they had been in the air 60 hours. Mr Fraser w as accompanied by Briga dier-General Hurley, U.S. Consul in New Zealand. The party to night i attending a White House dinner and will be overnight guests of the President. Secretary Early said that owing to the Duke of Kent’- death cancellation of the dinner was discussed, but after consulting the British Embassy it was decided to proceed and make the func tio i informal and in the nature of a business meeting rather than a social unction.—P.A. INVITATION TO MR CURTIN Sydney, Aug. 27 A fee’ing is growing in Australia that Mr Curtin should accept President Roosevelt's invitation to visit Washington The Sydney “Sun” says: “Such a visit to the leader of a great republic which Providence has made our Ally would obviously be of most inestimable value to the Commonwealth. No other Australian could possibly carry the authority of the Prime Minister in discussions of co-ordinated effort and strategy in the Pacific. Other Dominion leaders will confer with the President, and already the Prime Minister of New' Zealand is in Washington. Australia shojfld be represented by its Prime Minister.'’ Mr Curtin declines to comment on the invitation.—P.A .Special Australian Correspondent.