MR THOMAS'S CONFESSION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19277, 15 September 1924, Page 2

MR THOMAS'S CONFESSION

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CAPETOWN, September 1. Replying to au ! address ot welcome at East London, Mr J. 11. Thomas, Secretary of State for the Colonics, who is touring South Africa will the Empire Parliamentary Association’s party, said it would be a bad day for the country and for the world when British politicians in any part, when considering Empire problems, only concerned themselves with the interests of their own class or party. He knew there were misgivings in all parts of the Empire at the advent of the Labour Government, but he had not been afraid of the consequences, because he was satisfied there was an unerring sense of lair play and love for the Empire in every class of the community. He was equally satisfied that it was a good thing for all parties to face responsibility. Tliero whs a 'time when he had been astounded that he could not turn the world upside down in a, few weeks. Since then he had been turned upside down himself many Great Britain was the one nation in the world in which every party in the State had experienced tide responsibility of office. That could not be a bad thing for the State—the things they learnt of the problems they faced would not onlv make them better men, but they would lever be unmindful of their responsibility to the country.