"HAUGHTY, BITTER TONGUE,"

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 2, 3 January 1931, Page 9

"HAUGHTY, BITTER TONGUE,"

CANADIAN PREMIER IN LONDON.

OPPOSITION PAPER'S. COMMENT.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

VANCOUVER, December S,

Discussing the part played by the Prime Minister, Mr. R. B. Bennett, at the_ Imperial Conference in London, which terminated in a lively controversy with the Rt. Hon. J. A. Thomas, Secretary for the Dominions, in which the term "humbug" figured prominently, the Vancouver "Sun" states editorially:— "Premier R. B. Bepnett sets sail frOm England to-day, leaving behind him the most egregious set of blunders ever perpetrated by any Prime Minister of Canada. His arrogance, his bombast and his attempt to domineer a conference whose tenor of conciliation was beyond his understanding, have affronted all Englishmen and shamed all Canadians. Even the English Tories will resent his attitude. They micrht profit by politically; but, none the less, his unsolicited interference in the domestic policies of England will embarrass them. They have just used him. After his mistakes have served their purpose, they will have no use for him.

Canada is not afraid of England's disapproval. We do not shrink at En«lands frown. But we do try in our dealings with England to preserve that attitude of courtesy that relatives should hold towards one another in their mother's house. And we do know t the economic future of this Dorainion is dependent upon the goodwill and friendliness of one unit of. the Empire witlv another. Mr. Bennett, with'his haughty bitter tongue, has sown the seed of Imperial dissension. Eveu the strongest Tory in Canada will sense a Violation of his good taste and a violation of his Imperial sensibilities. Mr. Bennett has blundered. And all Canada must for it."