3 MAY 1924, Page 10

* Mr. William Hughes, the ex-Prime Minister of Australia, who

is at present engaged on a lecture tour throughout the United States, has made his bow to the American public at a luncheon given in his honour by the Australian Commissioner in New York, Mr. Donald Mackinnon. In an eloquent plea for British- American co-operation in the interests of civilization, Mr. Hughes somewhat dramatically described Australia as " a tiny speck of white in an ocean of colour." " If we were not in Australia," he said, " the Western world would have to garrison us."

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