EMPIRE DEFENCE CONFERENCE
Proposal To Send Lord Hankey To N.Z. (Independent Cable Service.) LONDON, March 16. In the House of Commons today Lieutenant-Commander Fletcher (Labour) asked it’ Um Government would consider sending Lord .Hankey to tlie Defence Conference in New Zealand aS bis great knowledge and experience would render his presence invaluable. Mr. Chamberlain said that the Government would consider it, but tlie arrangements which had already been made would probably be found to be satisfactory.
Lord Hankey retired from tils posts of Secretary io Hie Cabinet, to the l.'oiumil tee of Imperial Defuiee, and Clerk to Hie Privy Council in May last. He was eons ide red one of Hie greatest public servants of a generation and has been continuously at the centre of the Government machinery for 30 years.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 148, 18 March 1939, Page 11
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131EMPIRE DEFENCE CONFERENCE Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 148, 18 March 1939, Page 11
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