“OUR WAR TOO”

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21194, 17 August 1940, Page 6

“OUR WAR TOO”

AMERICANS’ OPINION PRESSMEN IN HAMILTON U.S.A. “NOT SO NEUTRAL” The party of 11 American press representatives who arrived at Auckland yesterday by the Pan American California Clipper made a short break at Hamilton this morn- 1 ing in a motor trip to Rotorua, and in conversation with Waikato Times representatives the visitors declared that our war was America’s war. When the United States was loosely referred to as a neutral, one of the visiters retorted “not too much of the neutral.” They were able to speak of the determined effort being made in the United States to ensure that Great Britain received adequate supplies of war materials. In reply to an expression of the appreciation of the New Zealand people of the valuable assistance being given by the United States, one of the visitors replied that America’s future was as much at stake as was the British Empire’s. Even greater activity by U.S.A. was forecast. Beauty of Hamilton The pressmen stated that the hospitality extended to them since their ! arrival in New Zealand had been bountiful. Many of them expressed regret that their visit to Hamilton and the rich dairy district of the Waikato, of which they had heard, was so short. They were able to • spend a moment or two on the banks | of the Waikato River, however, and the scenery impressed them particularly. There were glimpses of typical New Zealand river scenery which was the first they had encountered in the Dominion. Cameras, many of which were movies, were carried by several of the pressmen, and numerous “shots” were taken of the river before the men proceeded on their journey to Rotorua, which was being made in the one day. One of the visitors remarked that he would like to spend a week delving more deeply into Hamilton’s apparent beauty. Members of the Party All the visitors are prominent pressmen. Mr W. W. Chaplin was recently a war correspondent with the British Expeditionary Force in Flanders representing the International News Service. Others were: Mr J. K. Walsh, editor of the Kalamazoo Gazette, representing the Associated Press; Mr Harold Callender, the New York Times; Mr Jeames Bassett, special writer of the Los Angeles Times, representing the Associated Press Feature Services; Mr Stephen Richards, representing the United Press Bureau of Detroit, of which he is head; Mr Peter Edson, of Cleveland, a special writer for the Newspaper Enterprise As- | sociation; Mr Michael Forsted, i*jprej senting the King Feature Syndicate, ! of which he is editor; Mr Royal Gunnison, special writer of the San Francisco Chronicle, representing the North American Newspaper Alliance; Mr Ansel Talbert, representing the New York Herald Tribune, of which he is aviation editor; and Mr Ward Morehouse, travel writer and columnist for the New York Sun.

Mr Roy Howard, head of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Syndicate is also in New Zealand, but did not make the trip to Hamilton and Rotorua.