MR MASSEY

Evening Star, Issue 17084, 1 July 1919, Page 6

MR MASSEY

‘DAILY MAIL’ APPRECIATION. (From the Official Representative with the N.Z. Peace Delegation, Mr Rilky.] LONDON, June 30. Referring to Mr Massey’s departure, th© ‘ Daily Man ’ editorially says : Mr Massey, Prime Minister of New Zealand, leaves Paris to-day on his return to that fair and far Dominion. He departs with a credit-able record of son-rice for his .State and the Empire, as member of the Imperial War Cabinet au-d as the New Zealand plenipotentiary at tho Peace Conference. Those who are acquainted with Mr Massey’s work in Paris will readily agree that few statesmen have rendered better (service to .trio Empire. His tenacity of purpose and sound common sens© have often maintained British interests when it would have been easier to have weakened on principle and accepted less valuable results. That remarkable document, the report of the War Responsibilities Commission, boars th© -impress of his Stem sense of justice and unswervable attachment to the Empire’s cause. It is in no small measure due to his statesmanlike acumen that Samoa will never ogain be controlled by a foreign Power, and he has secured for New Zealand a share of the valuable phosphate island of Nauru, in the South Pacific. New Zealand and the Empire may bo well satisfied with his woik_ at the Peace Conference, and we wish him Godspeed.”