FOREIGN RELATIONS: Plain Talker from Down Under

Not_ since Lord Lothian's death have U.S. citizens heard such plain talk from a British official as they heard last week. The plain talker was big (196 Ib.) Robert Gordon Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia. Homeward bound after a 30,000-mile tour of the British Empire, fresh from ten weeks with the War Cabinet in London, the Prime Minister stepped out of the Clipper to be greeted by Australian Minister Richard Casey. Then, with no kowtowing to supposed U.S. sensibilities, he let fly with a statement on war aims, flew in a camouflaged bomber to Ottawa, returned to...

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