FOREIGN RELATIONS
International contacts were, nut many years agio, chiefly reserved to professional diplomatists who had been trained to repress their personal sentiments, to speak moderately, and to avoid unnecessary friction. To-day, it is the privilege of politicians in general to discuss international affairs ami to meet the politicians of other nations. Much good may come out of these contacts and these discussions. But it is evident that the politicians should carefully learn to refrain from giving way to national passions and political preoccupations. 'l’hey should, whether in their own Parliaments or clewhere, as well as in international reunions, remember that whatever they say may be amplified by publicity, and may intensify the opposition which it is in the interest of the world to eliminate. On the politician at home ami abroad who deals with foreign affairs lies a heavy responsibility; for foreign nda'i'ins de mand the most delicate attention, and cannot, without danger, be made the sport of politics.- Manawatu Daily Times.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 244, 15 October 1932, Page 1 (Supplement)
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163FOREIGN RELATIONS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 244, 15 October 1932, Page 1 (Supplement)
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