MR. HUGHES'S RETORT
A story is going tho round of tho English papers wbioh, if not true, ia at least characteristic. It is told of that unrepentant Imperial^ Labourite, the Prima Minister of Australia, who, as everyone knows, is ohairman. also of tho Reparation Committee in Paris. Whe.n reports, so tho story goes, of the amount of damages assessed against Germany first began to leak out, a certain British politician faced Mr. Hughes with tho dilemma, "Have you considered tho effect, if Germany 13 forced, to pay such damages, on a. family of fire?" "No," replied Mr. Hughes. "But, if she is not, liavo you considered the effect oa a. Britiih family, of five?"-
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 127, 31 May 1919, Page 10
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