ILLUSTRIOUS NAMES.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4957, 29 March 1926, Page 2

ILLUSTRIOUS NAMES.

"like father, like son. PEACE OF EUROPE. LONDON, March 2.6, - In the course of, his speech When acknowledging his reception of the Freedom of the City of London, Sir Austen Chamberlain ' “If anything can make this hour dearer or more, precious-.to me it is, the belief that I have followed in the footsteps, of my dear father, and that, as a result of the work in which I have been engaged, 1 have repaid some of the debt I owe to him in a way which would have been very dear to his heart” ...

Tn proposing Sir Austen's health Mr Baldwin said ,that as his. father’s name was, connected with the consolidation of the I Empire slo Sir Austen’/ name would perpetually have \a foremojst place in the ranks of those who had sought to bring peace to Europe. Nobody had done: more than Sir Austen ha,d-done to.advan'ce the interests of the League of Nations. AMERICAN VIEWS. - A message from New York says the there generally regard Sir Austen’s vindication of his attitude at Geneva as a hollow victory. An exception is the New Yqrk Times, which says: “Sir Austen Chamberlain did much to blow away .the fog of -suspicion which had gathered around what is done at Geneva. Little by little the whole, atmosphere of doubt and suspicion which was artificially created has been cleared up. Tlie New York He.ra.l-d-T'ribune, on the other hand, says : “Sir Austen ..as won a Parliamentary triumph, but the public are baffled as they were before Mr Lloyd George attempted to probe the mystery.

The Morning World says: “It is probable that even within .the coniservative party some doubt exists as to whether the whole story of Geneva has been told. . ‘ ; The Evening World, under the heading, “Sir Austen’s doubtful victory,” says his speech in the House of Commons was more wordy than weighty.