EMPIRE'S KEY MAN.
Highest Tributes Paid to Sir M. Hankey. END OF AN EPOCH REACHED. (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON", May 31. Sir Maurice Hankey, who resigned his position as Secretary to the Cabinet to join the Suez Canal directorate, lias also resigned secretaryship of the Committee of Imperial Defence and the position of clerk to the Privy Council. Probably no public servant was ever accorded such tributes. The entire Press agrees it is the end of an epoch. This j South Australian, long known as the I Empire's key man, receives compliments | worthy of the greatest Prime Ministers. Nothing is more significant of his great achievements in recent years than his powers in assisting successive Prime Ministers straighten out muddles. j
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 127, 1 June 1938, Page 7
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