MR NASH IN LONDON

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 August 1942, Page 2

MR NASH IN LONDON

OBSERVATIONS ON OUTLOOK IN PACIFIC GOOD ANGLO-AMERICAN RELATIONS. AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND NEVER CLOSER. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, August 5. Mr Nash confirmed Mr Frasers recent statement that there is an aggressive spirit in New Zealand and Australia by saying that in his opinion the United Nations should not permit the Japanese to “dig in” too long before hitting back. Mr Nash in a statement to the Associated Press of Great Britain stressed the admirable working relations between England and America. He added that New Zealand and Australia had never been closer. “New Zealand,” he said, “knows and appreciates Australia’s readiness to throw in her all against the enemy. Australians know they can rely similarly on the New Zealanders if Australia is attacked. Both countries are closely co-operating.” Mr Nash indicated that his discussions’ in the United Kingdom were most satisfactory. Mr Nash yesterday interviewed the Minister of Food, Lord Woolton, and also the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Kingsley Wood, with whom he lunched. He called on the American Ambassador, Mr Winant, in the afternoon, and later met the President of the Board of Trade, Dr. Dalton, and attended a meeting of the War Cabinet. . WORLD COUNCIL PROPOSAL AWAKENS INTEREST IN BRITAIN. (Special Correspondent.) LONDON, August 5. “Mr Nash is a very great acquisition. He has made valuable contributions in the Pacific War Council,” Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal, Chief of the Air Staff, told me during a brief talk I had with him at a luncheon for Empire correspondents which he attended. There is every reason to believe that this view is widely held among those whom Mr Nash met, and Commodore W. E. Parry, who arrived from America, also commented on the very high regard in. which Mr Nash is held in Washington and New York. Mr Nash has been asked by three people in “high places” for full copies of his - suggestion that a World War Council, comprising Britain, America, Russia and China, should be established, and also about post-war reconstruction and development of the council.