NOT OPTIMISTIC
VIEWS OF MR HUGHES
(Received 17th April. 12.25 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Mr W. Hughes, Minister of External Affairs, said: “I am afraid President Roosevelt’s proposals to Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini is like asking a drunkard to give up alcohol for ten
years. I think it is a splendid idea, but it is not a new one. Athens and Sparta made a pact to last fifty years, and it lasted less than a year. In view of the experience of the last twenty years we can only ask, are non-aggression or any kind of pacts worth anything at all?
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 17 April 1939, Page 8
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