GOOD RESULTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1943, Page 3

GOOD RESULTS

FROM DR. EVATT’S MISSION TO UNITED STATES AUSTRALIA’S ATTITUDE BETTER UNDERSTOOD. WAR NEEDS IN SOUTH-WEST PACIFIC. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, May 8. “Though Australia’s Minister of External Affairs, Dr. Evatt, has been in Washington less than a month, it can confidently be said that Australia’s attitude on the South-West Pacific is much more clearly and sympathetically understood in all official circles.” This statement is made jointly by the editors of three leading Australian papers, who are at present visiting the United States.

Dr. Evatt had interviews with the President and his closest advisers, and these resulted in the needs of the South-West Pacific being reassessed in terms of the changed conditions in that theatre. Any belief that Australia was anxious to secure major modifications in the previously decided global strategy, or sectional advantages, had been effectively dissipated. Dr. Evatt has emphasised that if a holding war must be fought in the South-West Pacific, adequate forces must be made available to ensure that the front can, in fact, be held. He also stressed that such a war necessitates constant harassing so that the. enemy might not build up an impregnable position.

Mr Noel Monks, formerly war correspondent in the South-West Pacific, writing in the London “Daily Mail,” urges the inauguration of a “Planes for Australia Week” on the same lines as the tanks for Rpssia week which proved such a success. “Aircraft are Australia’s vital need,” he says. “With sufficient air power, Australians can not only hold the Japanese away from their shores, but can hit them hard in their island strongholds to the north.”