LATE MR. LYONS
"NATIONAL PRESTIGE"
HELD CABINET TOGETHER
STRAIN ON SYSTEM
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copj-right.)
LONDON, April 9
"The Times," in a leading article on the late Mr. J. A. Lyons, says Australia loses a Prime Minister who enjoyed to an unprecedented extent the confi.dence, affection, and respect of the .whole community and whose proved honesty and independence enabled him to rally the Commonwealth to the effort necessary to maintain the national credit.
Ministers lately had not been a united family and disagreed among themselves on national defence and the practicability of proceeding with a programme of social reform. These dissensions were accompanied by open bickerings, and only the national^ prestige of Mr. Lyons kept Cabinet together.
There is little doubt that these troubles helped to wear down Mr. Lyons's physical resistance* but the heaviest strain came from the menace of international tension. Mr. Lyons laboured incessantly to go-operate with Britain, and his untimely death is a loss to the whole Empire as well as
Australia
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 83, 10 April 1939, Page 8
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