DOMINIONS OFFICE OBSOLETE
Australian Minister’s View MESSAGES FROM BRITAIN DELAYED By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. MELBOURNE, August 9. The Minister of External Affairs, Mr. W. M. Hughes, declared in an address to-day that the Australian Dominions Office in London was obsolete.
He said that messages about international affairs should go direct from the Foreign Office or the Prime Minister of Britain to the Prime Ministers of the Dominions. “At present,” he said, “a delay of a few hours in a message could make the consultation of a Dominion a mere formal courtesy. The Dominions Office now acts as a net in which messages are entangled. It has no positive task.” Mr. Hughes added that It surely was an anachronism that information received by Dominion Governments lagged hopelessly behind a Press cable message which conveyed the same news to all the world.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 269, 10 August 1938, Page 11
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