BRITAIN’S DESTINY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 195, 19 July 1937, Page 7

BRITAIN’S DESTINY.

MR BRUCE’S CONFIDENCE

ADVICE TO ENGLISH SCHOOLBOYS.

“We are still the salt of the earth, whatever anybody says, declared the Australian High Commissioner (Mr S. M. Bruce) at the prize-giving at Clifton College, England. He urged the boys not to get into that feeble-minded condition in which they thought there was no good in the British Empire, and almost apologised for living. He added : “Everywhere T go people seize on the fart that I have been a Cambridge rowing Glue. This was the biggest distinction of mv life and cmve me more satisfaction than the Australian Prime Ministership.” The Imperial Conference, he said, bail been the most successful ever held, and should give confidence in the Empire’s future. “I believe,” he added, “despite the pessimists, that there is going to he a marvellous advance in international relations in the next few years. I believe that your lifetime will see the international establishment of that rule of law which took centuries to establish inside national borders.”