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...family council had been called. Mrs. John Curtin, who has never been outside Australia, said last week in Canberra that she was going to London (via the U.S.) with her Prime Minister husband. Then came word from Auckland that New Zealand's Prime Minister, able Scot-born Peter Fraser, was on "the eve of his departure." No word came from Pretoria, South Africa, but no such council would be complete without Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, the British Commonwealth's elder statesman...
General Douglas MacArthur, before a banquet in his honor in Canberra, received the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Bath, Military Division, First Class-to which King George elevated him in 1943.* From Prime Minister John Curtin (soon to visit the U.S.) he got good wishes: "I trust that [General MacArthur] will live for many years to look back on the day he first arrived in this country for which he has done so much." Responded the soldier: "Two years ago when I landed on your soil I said to the people of the Philippines, whence...
...Canberra, five days of momentous conferences ended with Prime Ministers John Curtin of Australia and Peter Fraser of New Zealand seated at a historic table. On it, in 1900, Queen Victoria scratched her Royal assent to a Constitution for Australia. On it, last week, two Laborites committed their countries to a document which, they hope, may become the Charter of the Southwest Pacific...
Smuts In Translation. South Africa's Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts last November proposed just such Dominion cooperation to "tidy up" the Commonwealth and Empire. Canberra had translated his doctrine into a dynamic program. Said John Curtin: "This conference is ... of deep significance to the whole structure of the British Commonwealth of Nations...
George VI will feel the Duke's departure keenly; since the death of the Duke of Kent, Gloucester has been more than ever His Majesty's main help in the interminable chores of royalty. But a Royal Duke posted in Canberra should bind the British Commonwealth even more solidly together...