FAR BASES

Taranaki Daily News, 21 September 1940, Page 8

FAR BASES

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.

POLICY OF U.S.A. DEFENDING PACIFIC TALKS WITH BRITAIN

Rec. 12.30 a.m. London, Sept. 20. Co-operation for Pacific defence is one subject of talks at Wasnington, says the London radio. Discussions have been opened between the LJnited States Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, the British Ambassador to the United States, the Marauess of Lothian, and the Australian Minister at Washington, Mr. R. G. Casey. These discussions, it was stated, concerned the defence of the Pacific. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times says the conference is concerned with the possibility • of cioser co-operation between English-speaking peoples throughout the world and particularly with the joint use of naval and air bases for mutual defence, states a New York message. The conVersations are chiefly in regard to United States' use of Australian, New Zealand and South African bases. The United States,. it is stated, has adopted a policy of keeping possible enemies f ar from its coast, thus bases in Australia and South Africa and at Singapore would obviously be most valuable.