ART & LIFE
ROYAL ACADEMY BANQUET SPEECHES. ' PROPOSAL TO LEND PICTURES - OVERSEAS. BRITISH GOVERNMENT’S SOCIAL POLICY. (Received Friday, 7 p.m.) LONDON, May 3. The Prince of Wales,, who was the chief guest at the Royal Academy banquet, referred to the fact that the National Gallery was considering the advisability of lending English pictures overseas. It was felt that the Dominions ■ and foreign countries should be allowed to see the best work of English artists. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, replying to Sir William Llewellyn’s toast of the Government, in which he declared that people should be grateful to the Ministry for the contrast between Britain and less happy countries, said that confidence was justified, but not complacency or extravagance. The difficulty was that the nations lacked sufficient mutual trust to adopt policies of goodwill and co-operation. The Government’s aim within the United Kingdom was to enable the nation to develop on its own income, concentrating on the reconstruction of the homes of the masses and restoring the prosperity of depressed areas.
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Wairarapa Age, 5 May 1934, Page 5
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