CONTACT WITH U.S.A.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1941, Page 6

CONTACT WITH U.S.A.

NEED OF NEW ZEALAND LEGATION

EMPHATIC OPINION OF MR COATES.

REPRESENTATIONS MADE TO GOVERNMENT.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day.

The importance of the call for an Anzac Corps was put in a new perspective today when Mr J. G. Coates returned to Wellington from his recent visit to the United States. The people of the United States, he said, knew a lot about the Anzacs. but many of them' did not think in terms of Australia and Nov/ Zealand.

Referring to the American attitude to the European conflict, Mr Coates said that east of the Mississippi the outlook of the people was similar to cur own. The isolationists had a bigger cay in the Middle West, however, but that attitude had been altered to a large extent by the Japanese action, which tended to unify public opinion and break down barriers.

Commenting on the need for the establishment of a New Zealand Legation in Washington, Mr Coates said this was a matter requiring urgent attention. The appointment of a New Zealand representative there was inevitable, and Mr Coates said he had made representations to the Prime Minister (Mr P. Fraser) and the Acting-Premier (Mr W. Nash) giving them, his views on the subject.