UNITED AIMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 December 1943, Page 3

UNITED AIMS

AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND IN PACIFIC ' SHOULD SPEAK WITH ONE VOICE. STATEMENTS BY MINISTER. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) SYDNEY, December 3. New Zealand and Australia should speak -with one voice in the Pacific. This was emphasised by the Commonwealth Minister of External Affairs, Dr. Evatt, the Minister of Shipping and Supply, Mr Beasley, and the new-ly-appointed Australian High Commissioner to New Zealand, Mr Dalton, at a Tasmanian Government farewell luncheon to the last-named today. Mr Dalton has been Deputy-Premier of Tasmania. “If our two countries speak with one voice, our cause will have greater prestige- when the future of the Pacific is decided,” Mr Dalton declared. Dr. Evatt said: “New Zealand and Australia are countries where the social states have been developed- almost to the maximum extent possible in the world as we know it today. Somehow or other we have to have these two great Dominions working together for the common objectives of the United Nations. Conservations will start at a very early date on the objectives we have in view.” Mr Beasley said: “New Zealand today sits in with the Australians and American representatives on all the important bodies on resources and supply set up in Australia. The battles of the war will be fought on the operational fronts but the success of these battles will be determined by the measure of production on the home fronts to supply those operations.”