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SYDNEY
RETURN PRESS CONFERENCE GIVEN BY THE PRIME
MINISTER, MR JOHN GORTON, ON ARRIVAL AT MiXC OT
AIRPORT. 14 MAY 1969
PRIME MINISTER: I am not going to be able to tell you anything much. You
realise that, of course, because I will be making a statement to
Parliament and I won't be answering questions concerning the trip
until I have made the statement.
Q. Will there be any surprises, Sir, in your report to
Parliament?
PM: Oh, I don't think so. I hope it will be of interest.

BBC " MONEY" PROGRAMME
TV INTERVIEW WITH THE PRIME MINIST
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Interviewer: Mr. John Tusa r
Recorded on 24 April 1969 for screening on 8 May 196
Q. What do you see Prime. Minister as the dangers from a
completely " open door" policy towards foreign investment?
PM. I suppose a possible danger would be something which
was, in its effects even greater than the effects, say, of American
investment in Canada. Those, I suppose, one could indicate in this
way. First, I think it is true to say that in Canada about fifty per cent

SECOND VISIT TO U. S. 1969
WASHINGTON
TELEVISION INTERVIEWS GIVEN BY THE PRIME
MINISTER, MR JOHN GORTON AT BLAIR HOUSE 8 MAY 1969_
CHANNEL 7 NETWORK ( Interviewer Norman Bennell)
* JC~ Q. PM: Q. PM: Q. PM: Q. PM: Firstly, Prime Minister, I wonder what assurances you had
this morning from your talks about the future of the Fill?
Well, we gathered a whole lot of technical information
and about the intentions of the United States Air Force. I think
this will be of great advantage to our own Defence Department
when we return to Australia.

SECOND ViSiT TO US 1969
WASI-i* NPGTON
EXCHANGE OF REMARKS BETWEEN PRESIDENT NIXON
AND PRIME MINISTER GORTON UPON THE PRIME
MINISTER'S DEPARTURE 7 MAY 1969
PRESIDENT NIXON: Mr Prime Minister, as you leave the White House
and you are not leaving the country yet, because we hope you will stay
here for a few more days I want you to know how grateful I am for your
returning to the United States after having been here at the time of
President Eisenhower' s funeral, and for giving us the opportunity to have

SECOND TRIP TO THE U. S. 1969
WASHILNGTON
SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER, MR. JOHN GORTON,
AT THE WHITE HOUSE IDINNER 6 MAY 1969
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen:
This is a speech, Sir, to which it is very difficult
to reply. I think it is true that there is, between the people of the United
States and the people of my own country, some particular bonds which
are not of recent, birth, but which have matured over the years.
True it is, that in our own country we reached self

SECOND VISIT TO THE U. S. 1969
WASH INGTON
ARRIVAL STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER,
MR. JOHN GORTON 6 MAY 1969
I am glad to be here on a second visit to Washington
within a space of only a few weeks, and glad that this visit is made
in happier circumstances than the last.
I return for fuller consultations on matters opened up
on my last visit but postponed because of the period of mourning.
I now look forward to resuming my discussions with
the President and with the Secretaries of State and Defence and feel

FOR PRESS: P. M. No. 39/ 1969
DEATH OF PRESIDENT OF INDIA
Tribute from the Acting Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. John McEwen
The Acting Prime Minister, Mr. John McEwen, has
sent the following message to the Prime Minister of India, Mrs.
Indira Gandhi, on the death of the President of India, Dr. Zakir
Husain:-" IT IS WITH DEEP REGRET THAT I LEARNT
OF THE SUDDEN DEATH OF PRESIDENT ZAKIR HUSAIN.
TO YOU, TO YOUR GOVERNMENT, AND TO THE PEOPLE
OF INDIA MAY I ON MY OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF
OF THE GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE OF AUSTRALIA

FOR PRESS: 0~ AIb P. M. No. 38/ 1969
ADDITIONAL DROUGHT RELIEF FOR QUEENSLAND
Statement by the-Prime Minister, Mr. John Gorton
The Commonwealth Government has agreed to provide
additional drought relief assistance to the Queensland Government.
The Commonwealth appreciates that the drought situation
in Queensland has become increasingly serious and that further
Commonwealth help is required to assist the State Government.
We will therefore meet the whole cost of any relief
expenditure which the State may incur in 1968-69 in excess of

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SECOND VLSLT TO THE US 1969
S { D1 E Y, N. S. W.
DEPARTURE PRESS CONFERENCE GIVEN BY THE
PRIME MINISTER, MR TOHN1 GORTON AT M OASC
AIRPORT 1 MAY 1969
Q. Prime Minister, it was suggested today that a US Senate
Committee will investigate both Pine Gap and Woomera installations. Do
you know anything about this?
PM:-No. All know about it is that I read a headline in one of the
Sydney evening papers to that effect.
Q. Are you worried that any such investigation would prejudice
the security of the installations?

Issued from the Office of
the Press Secretary.
PRIME MINISTER TO REVISIT CANADA
After leaving Washington D. C. on Thursday
afternoon, 8 May, the Prime Minister and Mrs. Gorton will
spend the weekend in the Rocky Mountains in Western Canada
and they will depart for Australia by the Qantas flight leaving
Vancouver on Monday, 12 May.
On his previous visit to Canada the Prime Minister
was pressed for time and was unable to take up an invitation
issued by Mr. Trudeau to visit this part of Canada on that
occasion. CANBERRA April 1969