DOMINIONS OFFICE
OBSOLETE & A CAUSE OF DELAY AUSTRALIAN MINISTER’S CRITICISM DIRECT COMMUNICATION NEEDED By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. (Recd This Day, 12.30 p.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. The Minister for External Affairs, Mr W. M. Hughes, declared in an address that the Dominions’ Office in London was obsolete. He said messages about international affairs should go direct from the Foreign Office of the Prime Minister of Great Britain to the Prime Ministers of the Dominions. At present the delay of a few hours in a message could make the consultation of a Dominion a mere formal courtesy. The Dominions Office now acts as a net in which messages are entangled. It has no positive task,” Mr Hughes observed. He added that it was surely, an anachronism that information received by the Dominions’ Governments lagged hopelessly behind the Press which conveyed the same news to all the world.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 August 1938, Page 6
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145DOMINIONS OFFICE Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 August 1938, Page 6
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