TRIBUTE TO MR MASSEY.
♦ ■ WORK AT PEACE CONFERENCE. Defending Mr W. M. Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia, against an attack m the "Times," the National Review of October last comments on the showing made by him and by the Prime- Minister of New "Zealand at the Peace Conference. "The Australian and New Zealand Prime Ministers^" it states, "were lie only British plenipotentiaries 1 with any serious grasp of the ' fundamental . conditions of permanent , peace, ' bebau'j^ f they alone brought commonsense to bear— r® (Quality very rare -among statesmen, and passionately resented by. who do not possess it. .. "' '■ . i.-?^,j -■■••- , • A kittle! later the writeß remarks:— '"Australia and' New ''Zealand are the orilyj 3 "British iJominions^indeed, the only communities- — which have no reason to be ashamed of the role of. their plenipotentiaries m Paris. Mr Hughes and Mr Massey at least tried to' do their duty." '
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLI, Issue 9431, 31 January 1921, Page 5
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