PACIFIC OUTLOOK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 November 1941, Page 5

PACIFIC OUTLOOK

MR A. DUFF COOPER CONFERS WITH MINISTERS “ABSOLUTE & COMPLETE AGREEMENT.” ANGLO-AMERICAN RELATIONS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. A conference with the New Zealand Government was held yesterday by Mr A., Duff Cooper, British Minister to the Far East. In a subsequent interview, Mr Duff Cooper, who expressed satisfaction with the results of his visit to New Zealand, said that an exchange of views had taken place between the Ministry and himself, and that he and the Ministers present had been in absolute and complete agreement.

Replying to an inquiry as to whether there had been any further developments in connection with the proposal that Britain should be represented by a resident Minister in the Pacific area, Mr Duff Cooper said he had investigated this question and submitted a

report on it to the British Government. Beyond that he had no statement to make. , , ~ “As Mr Churchill has already said, Britain is definitely 100 per cent behind America in the Pacific,” said Mr Duff Cooper, when asked if he was able to discuss the question of British aid to America in the event of the United States becoming involved in war in the Pacific. There was, he added, complete trust between the Governments of the two countries and no secrets as between the one na-tion and the othei. The United States had already been given the use of bases in the Atlantic and bases would also be made available in the Pacific if required. However, they might not be required, because America had already developed bases in its own territories. Mr Duff Cooper will leave Wellington this morning by car for Auckland.