MR. HUGHES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 284, 25 August 1921, Page 5

MR. HUGHES

TRIBUTE BY “MORNING POST” RADICAL PRESS CASTIGATED By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright (Rec. August 24, 9.15 p.m.) London, August 25. Tho "Morning Post" in an editorial says: "It is because Mr. Hughes is a true friend of Britain that ho has so many detractors here. The sneers, ’ censure, and incorrigible hostility of the Radical Press would have been spared him, would indeed have been changed to effusive compliment, if only he had 'been our embittered enemy steeped in sedition or even crime. British Radicalism’s sour perversity could not be better illustrated than by contrasting its regard for Mr. Hughes, with that it shows for such men as Gandhi and de Valera. If Mr. Hughes had not come to cement the Empire, but in order to snap the last link between Britain and the Dominions, how the Radical Press and party would have slobbered over him." Mr. Hughes crossed the Channel yesterday to Boulogne, and was welcomed by the French authorities. He visited Amiens and inspected the memorials to Australian soldiers. He will tour the battlefields to-day and to-morrow, arriving at Paris to-morrow night. He will confer with the French Government on Friday.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.