CONGRATULATIONS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 134, 4 December 1930, Page 9

CONGRATULATIONS

"TRUST I SHALL BE WORTHY"

SWEARING-IN NEXT MONTH

SYDNEY, 3rd December. It is announced in Sydney that Sir Isaac Isaacs will be sworn in as Governor-General of Australia about the middle of January. He is at present in Sydney presiding over a partlyheard case. To-day he received hosts of congratulatory cablegrams and telegrams. Acknowledging the congratulations of the Bar, he said: "I am humbly and dutifully grateful to my King for tho very high honour he has graciously conferred upon me, and I trust I shall be worthy of it." "SINGULARLY UNHAPPY TIME." The Sydney "Sun" says that wbilo the appointment of-Sir Isaac Isaacs is a concession to Australian sentiment, it comes at a singularly unhappy time. It is perfectly certain to colour British feeling, and almost sure to affect the financial issue between the two countries. To many Britons it will be as if we have struck away the hand offered in fellowship. "They wish to

walk alone; we will not intrude"—• that will undoubtedly be tho response of British people who think about these things. CONSIDERABLE SURPRISE. Considerable surprise has been occasioned by Sir Isaac Isaacs's appointment, although he is held in the highest esteem. Lady Isaacs recently returned from a trip abroad. There are two daughters, Mrs. David Cohen, of Sydney, and Mrs. Sefton Cullen, of Singapore. The "Sydney Evening News" says: "Certainly Australian opinion is not unanimous in favour of tho appointment of an Australian, but the lack of unanimity has nothing personal in it, for there is no more outstanding Australian and no one better deserving of being the King's representative than Sir Isaac Isaacs. He is a very distinguished lawyer, who has filled and adorned many public offices."