SPEECH CAUSES SENSATION
3 Mr W. M. Hughes In New Guinea 5 REMARKS THOUGHT TO BE ILL-ADVISED (TOUTED PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.) (Received June 3, 1 a.m.) CANBERRA, June 2. Australia’s war-time Prime Minis- > ter, Mr W. M. Hughes, who helped ! to secure the Mandate over New ! Guinea for Australia, and who is at • present visiting New Guinea as Min- : ister for External Affairs, is to be asked to explain a statement he , made at Rabaul yesterday at a pub- ' lie reception. The statement was: “We have got our Mandate. On this rock we’ve : built our church and all hell is not ’ going to take away what we have. What we have we hold.” : The Primev Minister (Mr J. A. : Lyons) said Mr Hughes would be asked immediately to supply a sum- . Mary of his speech, which is re- : garded by some Federal Ministers as ; ill-advised and provocative at the 1 present juncture.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22418, 3 June 1938, Page 13
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