TRIBUTE TO WIVES
Lord 1? unciman's keen appreciation of the part played by his wife in building his great career recalls the words of two other famous men. When Lord Reading retired from the office of Viceroy of India ho said of his wife: " I should bo wanting if I did not say what a support she was to me. Sho encouraged me in my difficulties, and by her work among the women of India she did more to cure racial animosity than perhaps any work I could have done." The other was Mr. Henry Ford: " If tho British are the only peoplo who can pioneer, it is because their wives go with them. Their idea of life is to be helpmates; real partners of their men, to build life with them. I know this from experience, because my wife was one of ten children of a British woman who went to America when she , was 15. We have been partners for more than 40 years,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21467, 15 April 1933, Page 6 (Supplement)
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