AMERICAN VISITORS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1941, Page 3

AMERICAN VISITORS

WfiLLANOWN JOURNALISTS ARRIVAL AT AUCKLAND. OBSERVATIONS ON WAR OUTLOOK. -By Telegraph —Fra;-; A-ror.aunr, . AUCKLAND. January 5. Two well-known American newspaper men arrived at Auckland by Pan-American A.irways' Honolulu Clipper. They were Mr W. W Waymack. editor of the "Dor Moines Register and Tribune." lowa, and Mr Carroll Binder, foreign editor <>f the Chicago "Daily News." They will leave tomorrow for Sydney by the Tasman Empire .Airways flying-boat Aotearoa. and will return to New Zealand later to survey Dominion conditions and outlook. Mr Binder said they were .going to Australia to familiarise themselves with Austrahan attitudes and conditions. specially as they applied to United States interest.'-. Included in the survey they hoped to make was the question of the attitude of .Australians t<> defence problems Similar objects would be followed when they returned io .New Zealand . Mr Waymack, who is a Pulitzer Prize winner, and Mr Binder do not intend to follow the itinerary of a number of American newspaper men who paid a short visit to New Zealand several months ago. and they will not continue as far as ib.e East. They said they preferred make as comprehensive a survey as possible of New Zealand and .Austrahii. both having visited the East before. Speaking of the attitude of .American people to recent Japanese st.'itements Mr Waymaek said that the expansion of Japan southward was v.cwed willvery genera! concern, and whatever w.c done in strengthening the defrii-j res <J tho-e eotmtrie; which did m-t believe in aggr-S>ive policies W.c .1 much mtere-O. to the An'.eric:.n people. Questioned about the attitude <>f the pai ticipa'ii-n m the war. Mr ymaci; •aid there had been >:o miraeulou-- ! change m llu-.r outlook H. -v. < . feelmg about the w. r :md :)!■•; ■■ ••...• whom tlu-y v.-.u-.u-d win