WISHES HE WERE BACK.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19251, 5 March 1928, Page 9

WISHES HE WERE BACK.

MR AMERY'S SPEECH,

PRAISE FOR DOMINIONS

(bt cable —rar.ss association copthight.) (AUSTRALIAN AND K.I. AND SUN CABLS.)

LONDON, March 2,

"After 300 speeches throughout the Empire, I feel like a candidate on the eve of an election who does not want to make another speech," said Mr Amery at the Overseas Club's luncheon. "During an election candidates have difficulty to find time to snatch a meal. When on my Empire tour the difficulty was to find the time when one was not expected to eat, such was the exuberance and abundance of the Dominions' hospitality everywhere. As I came here to London the drizzle made me wish I was back in the Dominion cities, where the sun shines brightly. "Virile members of our race are building up young nations ill the choicest lands of the earth, where there i 9 room for still greater numbers of our stock."

In ten minutes Mr Amery had sketched his tour in descriptive language that carried the audience round the Empire in a panorama fashion. Continuing, Mr Amery said: "Through all this wonderful diversity and richness of national life, each of which is only part of a wider whole, runs the thread of common kinship, aspirations, habits, beliefs, and associations. There has not been a single day or an hour I have not been at home and welcomed a 9 a friend, fellow citizen, and fellow worker. Returning to England again, the strongest impression remains that I am a member of our world-wide home."