GOVERNMENT TOURISTS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 203, 28 August 1942, Page 2

GOVERNMENT TOURISTS

I am surprised at the criticism levelled at our overseas ambassadors. We have one in Canada and one in U.S.A. with a roving commission. Surely your correspondents do not expect them to attend to business; they have more important matters requiring their attention and mere buying and selling should be beneath men of their calibre. Has not Mr. Nash communicated a plan for U.S.A., Great Britain, Russia and China to form a league to police the world after hostilities cease? No doubt this organisation could get a lease of the old League of Nations masoleum at Geneva at a very low rental. If there is anyone .with a greater breadth of vision bold enough to suggest a better scheme which will please those nations not included in this world wide plan, he is more modest than our Ambassador and must be blamed for hiding his light under a bushel or in these days being unaware of the various hroadcasting outfits. However, Mrs. Socrates, no doubt, tired of listening to her husband's monologues, one day could not hide her resentment and said "Soc., old man, you talk too damned much." SOUR GRAPES.