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MR HUGHES’S COMMENT. PRESIDENT’S PROPOSALS. '(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received April 17, 11.30 a.m. SYDNEY, April 17. Mr \Y. M. Hughes (.Minister of External Affairs), referring to President Roosevelt’s appeal to the Dictators, said : “I am afraid the proposals to Herr Hitler and Signor .Mussolini are like asking a drunkard to give up alcohol for ten years. 1 think it is a splendid idea, but it is not a new one. ■‘Athens and Sparta made a pact to last fifty years; it lasted less than a year. ‘‘ln view of the experience of the last twenty years we can only ask,* are nonaggression or any kind of pacts worth anything at all?”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 116, 17 April 1939, Page 8
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116WORK OF PACTS Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 116, 17 April 1939, Page 8
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