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This headquarters announcement, following the appointment of Lt. Donald W. Fraser, USNR, as Drill Officer here, outlines plans for the annual spring inspection routine. In the first review, more than 900 undergraduate trainees will be led through the ceremonies on Soldiers Field by their student officers in the mid-afternoon, after which they will go on liberty in preparation for the Unit dance to be held that night...
Three months ago Curtin and his good friend Peter Fraser, Prime Minister of New Zealand, took a first step toward this dual goal of Pacific regionalism and stronger Empire ties. Their Canberra Agreement asserted ANZAC rights to be consulted on all Pacific dispositions. They must have moved too fast to suit President Roosevelt or old Cordell Hull; the reception in Washington was cold and silent. Though Whitehall kept very quiet, the scheme's reception in London was probably not much better...
...Peter Fraser preceded Curtin to Washington last week. In a way, both were already known there-Fraser through his able, popular Minister Walter Nash, who has been recalled to home duty in Auckland; Curtin through his aggressive, ambitious External Affairs Minister, Dr. Herbert Evatt, who has twice visited and often spoken...
...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...
...Dominions "down under," where the invader was stopped uncomfortably close to the home grounds, there has been less talk of world order and much more of immediate security. In their Canberra Agreement last January, Messrs. Fraser and Curtin proposed to build a great Pacific arc around New Zealand and Australia, pledged a common, regional policy within the Commonwealth...