VISIT TO AUSTRALIA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 December 1943, Page 4

VISIT TO AUSTRALIA

I BY BRITISH PRIME MINISTER .' SUGGESTED IN SYDNEY i (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright; I SYDNEY. December 22. ' That Mr Churchill may be invited to convalesce in Australia is suggested by the “Sydney Daily Telegraphs” political correspondent. Mr Churchill’s medical advisers have told him that he needs a complete change “in a bracing climate.” Several Commonwealth Ministers have expressed themselves as favouring the invitation. They think that if Mr Churchill is in North Africa he is already half-way to Australia and that the- plane trip here would be comparatively short and safe. The Prime Minister, Mr Curtin, has cabled Mr Churchill expressing “deepest sorrow and concern that in the midst of your great work you should have become ill. All Australians hope and pray for your well-being and quick recovery,” he said. Commentators on the suggestion that Mr Churchill should be invited to come to Australia say that if his health permits the projected meeting of Australian and. New Zealand Ministers in January might offer an occasion for informal discussions of Pacific problems such as bases for the United States and Mr Curtin’s proposals for the future of the Empire.