CIVIC RECEPTION
MR A. DUFF-COOPER AUCKLAND, Friday A civic reception will be given to Mr Alfred Duff Cooper, the British statesman, in Auckland at 5.15 p.m. today. The speakers will be the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser, the Mayor of Auckland, Mr J. A. C. Allum, and Mr Duff-Cooper. Mr Duff-Cooper, who is accompanied by his wife, Lady Diana DuffCooper, is on a special mission in the Far East and Pacific on behalf of the British War Cabinet. He will leave by air tomorrow for Christchurch and will make a rapid tour of the Dominion by air before returning to Sydney early next week. Born in 1890, the eldest son of Sir Alfred Cooper, Mr Duff-Cooper won the D.S.O. in the Great War and subsequently entered the Foreign Office, entering politics in 1924. In 1935 he was Minister of War. He was First Lord of the Admiralty in 1937, re- , signing in the following year owing to his disagreement with Mr Chamberlain’s policy at Munich. He was a member of Mr Churchill’s Cabinet as Minister of Information before his appointment last July to his present post. _____
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Waikato Times, Volume 129, Issue 21584, 21 November 1941, Page 6
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188CIVIC RECEPTION Waikato Times, Volume 129, Issue 21584, 21 November 1941, Page 6
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