INTERVIEWED IN LONDON.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLI, Issue 9290, 11 August 1920, Page 5

INTERVIEWED IN LONDON.

/'/REASONS- FOR HOSTILITY.

(Received August 11, .1.45 p.m.) v .-,■■.■ LONDON, August 10

;.'.Archbishop Mannix, interviewed in j * London, declared there was more in . the •Government's attitude than the .wish of the' public..- He realised the • Hostilitynof. _Mr \\..-: M. Hughes and ; others-like him ...was due to.Dr. Mannix helping to defeat eo.ij'scfptign. and save •^democratic < Australia-. h'rm military ■despotism; -also,.becaus^'.Dr. .alannix ■ had fiefp'idcd Treu-jid 'TfVm no.rsist'ent it :gyst«'n;it;ie yvilift^nt^oM ; "in : t-ie rable-grara?-'t.!v;ni,''>:h Lv",^oi),.,;.v li'1i'^1' Vcre the f rf -cnly. r*".b]o<rV'i ! '>i.s fl;e : Australia us 'ever" get!,. The rlolibVrnto atfr'iYrptsVm'.nd^y.^o., discredit hi'n in America had foiled. He stood by every syllable. of his -speeches. • (United Sfrvice.) Dr. Mannix said he did not know whether his exclusion from Ireland was legal He is seeking advice thereon. . He intended to. press his rights for admittance, unless the republican government intimated- his presence was un.welconifC He did not consider himself in .the'least', bound not to go to Liverpool, -Glasgow, or Manchester, but " whether he would defy the orders was anbtheiv question. While his exclusion from .Ireland entailed certain personal inconveniences, it made the British and' Irish. 'Governments the laughing-stock-.of the world. "I adhere'to every .syllable I have spoken'in America." he-said.- "I am bound 1 to'-return to' Australia. Mr • TJugHes is-not'my superior any more 'r; :than'"the vShah'of "Persia." ■>■■», ■ •-■o