TIMES ON MR THOMAS

Feilding Star, Volume 2, Issue 423, 27 December 1924, Page 3

TIMES ON MR THOMAS

TACT, IMAGINATION, COURAGE HAS PIIOVEU LABOUR TIT London, Nov. G. It is noticeable unit the Times. which has now thoroughly regained its former prestige as fli o mouthpiece of tlu; nation, has today given' a fine, testimonial to Mr J. H. Thomas on his exit from office. It was, says jh'o Printing House Square authority; a .sound instinct which scut him to the Colonial Of no? in the first instance, for he has loin; shown himself possessed of tact imagination and courage —all the requisite qualities, in fact, except the knowledge which he was fast acquiring,when the Government came to an ■end. He has, so far as the public knows*, made, no serious mistakes i" handling a large number of difficult and delicate problems, from Ireland to Iraq. He can hardly he held personally responsible for the general apathy' about British interests overseas which characterised, and eventually destroyed, th c first Labour 'Ministry, On the purely administrative sidy he did more than any 'man fo support the thesis that "Labour is lit to govern." And, now that he is leaving the world of Dominions and satrapies for the narrower'- but by no means less arduous work of guiding a great tirade union, he is moved to show that he will .go hack to it all* thestranger fur the experience of the lasfc nine months and with no illusion about the responsibilities and dangers ahead. That is the right ' i