Should Rest on Laurels
Lord Wakefield’s Advice to Sir Malcolm Campbell HOPE TO REACH 300 M.P.H. iTJnitefl Freß* Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright). Received 3 p.m. ;to-day. LONDON, March 8. Lord Wakefield has cabled! congratulations to Sir Malcolm Campbell, adding: “You should be content to rest on the laurels so gloriously earned.” The cablegram epitomises the general feeling that Sir Malcolm should not further risk his life. Mr Kaye Don, who witnessed the record, declares that the return run was the most heroic thing in Sir Malcolm Campbell’s career. “I don’t wish to see him again dicing with d(ea,th,” he said. Sir Mnilcolm, in response to the Star’s motoring writer who, by telephone, begged him to come home, replied: “I still hope to do 300 miles an hour.”
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 9 March 1935, Page 6
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128Should Rest on Laurels Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 9 March 1935, Page 6
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