Mr Massey to the Rescue

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 170576, 6 August 1921, Page 7

Mr Massey to the Rescue

A WORD IN SEASON. (Special to Press Association.) LONDON, Aug. 3. The “National Review,” referring to the opening speeches at the Conference, says editorially, under the heading “Mr Massey to the Rescue”: “ We are all grateful to Mr Massey for following General Smuts and saying a word in season. We feel that his protest on behalf of loyalty and good faith to the Allies will appeal to all that is best in the overseas Dominions, just as it is appreciated in the Old World. To General Smuts’ demand that Britain should wash its hands of Europe and avoid any partisan attitude in its concerns, necessarily rejecting all alliances, Mr Massey replied that he could not join in General Smuts’s opinion that we should do without alliances. We must stand by our treaties, even if for the time being they do not seem of much advantage. Our reputation for fair and honest dealing is one of our best assets, and must be maintained at all costs. If Britain had been compelled to stand alone in the late war, could she have been successful? AVith all the confidence he had in her might, power and patriotism, lie doubted it.”