"MASSEY TO THE RESCUE"

Evening Star, Issue 17731, 4 August 1921, Page 4

"MASSEY TO THE RESCUE"

‘NATIONAL REVIEW’S’ TRIBUTE

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

LONDON, August 3,

(Received August 4, at 9.20 a.m.)

Tho 1 National Review, 5 referring to the opening speeches at the Imperial Conference (on Juno 20), says editorially, under the heading “ Massey to tho Rescue 55 :—“Wo aro all grateful to Mr Massey for following General Smuts and saying a word in season. "Wo feel that his protest on behalf of loyalty and good faith to tho Allies will appeal to all that is best in tho overseas Dominions, just as it was 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, thus necessarily rejecting all alliances, Mr Massey replied that ho could not join in General Smuts’s opinion that, wo should do without alliances. He said that wo must stand, by our treaties, oven if for tho time being they did not seem to he of much advantage to ns. Our reputation for fair and honest dealing was ono of our best assets, and it must be maintained at all costs. If Britain hacl been compelled to stand alone in the late war could sho hare been successful ? _ With all tiro confidence that he had in her might, power, and patriotism, ho doubted if sho could have won through.”