U.S. LOAN TO BRITAIN
SIR PATRICK DUFF'S VIEWS Tlie High Ccmimissioner for the x . United Kingdom in New Zealand, Sir - \ Patrick Duff, elearly expressed hi? tjfv views on the propoaed American ioan to k Great Britain when speaking at a eivie reeeption tendered him and Lady Duif in Palmerston North yesterday. "If the iinancial arrangements now heing debated do go through, I shall,^* speaking for myself, be reminded how once as a young subalterm offieer in the war of 1914-18 I bought a cask of the loeal "beer for the offieers} Kless,,' said 8ir Patrick. For some r'eason or other it was not much to our taste and the mess did not cax-e for it. We offered it as a gift to the sergeants' mess, and soon after that I said to the sergeantmajor, 'How did the beer go?' To my " surprise he replied, 'They say it is just about right.' I said, 'What do you mean b.y* just about right?' 'Weli,' - he said, 'it's like this: They say that if it had been any worse they eouldn 't have drunk it, and if it had been any better they wouldn't have gotit.' " . - "One needs to be philosophic in this vale of tears," added Sir Patrielr, amid ; the -laughter of his audience.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 March 1946, Page 4
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212U.S. LOAN TO BRITAIN Chronicle (Levin), 5 March 1946, Page 4
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