MR THOMAS IN A DIFFICULTY

Evening Star, Issue 20633, 5 November 1930, Page 8

MR THOMAS IN A DIFFICULTY

A DINNER INCIDENT APPEAL TO MU AMERY. (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By T«l«er*ph—Copyright. RUGBY, November 3. (Received November 5, at 1 a.m.) Explaining why he, instead of Mr Thomas, proposed the toast of the chairman (Mr Te Water, High Commissioner) at the South African dinner to General Hertzog, Mr Havenga, and Mr Fourie (Conference delegates), at which Prince George was present, Mr Amery said he had received a pencil note, signed “Jimmy,” reading: “Dear old boy, do get me out of a blank hole. You know I will take a free dinner anywhere at the call of duty. It isn t the conference that keeps me away. They’ll stand another of my afterdinner speeches without bursting up the conference, but last time I went to South Africa my colleagues got into an expurgated mess. If I attended the dinner I fear they would do something that would put you in my place before breakfast You love our country too well, therefore, to say what I think about Mr To Water. I’ll look after Ramsay and Philip.”