SIR JAMBS ALLEN
SOLDIERS’ APPRECIATION. Representatives of the Returned Soldiers’ Association visited Sir Janies Allen at Wellington on Thursday evening to take leave of him and wash him success in his new sphere of activity as High Commissioner for New Zealand. Mr C. Batten (vice-president of the association) said he believed that Sir James Allen was the only Defence Minister in all the British Empire who had held office during the whole period of the war. He paid a tribute to Sir James Allen’s fairness in dealing with all returned soldiers’ affairs. The Minister at the head of the Defence administration had always been impartial and just. Sir James Allen, in reply, said he wished to say that if he had seemed hard at times it was not through any desire on his part to be so, but because he had a double duty to perform—to the country as well as to the soldiers. If the soldiers felt now that he had been just, lie was satisfied. Ho could ask for no more.
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Evening Star, Issue 17329, 17 April 1920, Page 11
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