American Friendship For
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Australia
pROM an American soldier on one of the South Pacific fighting fronts: — “It is nearly two years since I strolled through the peaceful streets of the Royal Park section of Melbourne. I was there only long enough to find in the quiet dignity of Royal Parade a touch of my own beloved Boston . . . Truthfully, I left Australia then with the thought that the enemy shortly would rain destruc tion on those scenes I’d learned to love.
Now, it is good to know that, through the gallantry of your boys and my bud dies, ‘Moon Over Melbourne'’(which song was written by a friend of mine) never came to be a bomber’s moon . . . Hos pitality I enjoyed in Australia, and many friendly messages since received from that country, are but further indications of the good feeling and co-operation that will exist between us all after the war— as it has during this, our common task.”
Staff-Sergeant H. Williams, NZEF, son of Captain and Mrs. F. Williams, of Suva, Fiji, was back in the Colony on leave in November.