IMPERIAL CABINET

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 210, 31 May 1921, Page 5

IMPERIAL CABINET

PERSONNEL DISCUSSED BY MR. MASTERMAN MR. HUGHES AND MR. . MASSEY By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright (Rec. May 30, 8.35 p.m.) London, May 30. Mr. C. F. G. Masterman, former Liberal Minister and member of tho Asquith Cabinet, discussing in the “Daily News" the personnel of the Imperial Cabinet meeting, says: "We all know our Mr. Hughes. His visit coincides with that of the Australian cricketers. There probably is not one member of tho Australian Eleven whom tho British jieoplo would not have preferred above Mr. Hughes as the Australian delegate. The ghastly mess of his latest visit, with its combined truculence concerning militarism and tariff reform, falls on a different nation from the one he lectured to death. He will be well advised to refrain from such utterances. He can fully occupy himself withnhis own desperate problem, that of keeping the swarming Eastern races from the boundless unoccupied continent, to which at the same time no white races ajo being invited. If he endeavours to_ fill it with English settlements, he will find ths task impossible. If he trusts to natural increase in the English settlements he will he equally lost. If he believes England is going to build a gigantic navy in order to jirobect an unoccupied Australia, he is living in dreams. If ho refuses to accept all white settlers, whatever European nation they belong to, lie will prove faithless to the great guardianship committed to his hant L Mr. Masterman continues: Mr. Massey, with his big body and laugh, seems to embody the Dominion’s uninterrupted prosperity, and seems to incarnate its continuous growth, lack <5 loms and steady accumulation ot ma tcrial wealth.”—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.