FOR LOYALTY

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 30, 4 August 1921, Page 7

FOR LOYALTY

" MR. MASSEY TO THE

RESCUE "

A WORD IN SEASON

NATIONAL REVIEW'S COMMENDATION.

(l)Nir«» PRBSI ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIOHT.) (Special to Press Association.) ; (Received August 4, 9 a.m.)

LONDON, 3rd August,

The National Review, refer^ng to the opening speeches at the Imperial Conference, says, editorially, under the heading, "Mr. Massey to the Eescue" : "\Ve are all grateful to Mr. Massey for following General Smuts and saying a word in season. We feel that his\protest on behalf of loyalty and good faith to the Allies will appeal to all that is best in the Overseas Dominions, just as it is appreciated in the Old World. To General Smuts's demand that Britain should wash her hands of Europe and avoid any partisan attitude in its concerns, necessarily rejecting all alliances, Mr. Massey replied that he could not join in General Smuts's opinion that we should do without alliances: ' We must stand by our treaties, even' if for the time being they do not seem much to our advantage. Our reputation for fair and honest dealing is one of our best assets, and it must be maintained at all costs. If Britain had been compelled to stand alone in the lat" war could she have been as successful? With all the confidence he had in, her might, power, and patriotism he doubted it."