Excerpt from From Boundary-Rider to Prime Minister Hughes of Australia, the Man of the Hour
I am under a deep debt to the High Commissioner of Australia (the Right Hon. Andrew Fisher) for his courtesy in writing his eloquent, pithy and wholly charming introduction, which no one else could have written with equal weight. For Mr. Hughes was his Attorney-General in all the Governments which he formed in the Federal Parliament of Australia, and succeeded him as Prime Minister.
The contribution on Compulsory Military Training was delivered by Mr. Hughes as an address to the National Service League at the Caxton Hall in 1907, with Lord Roberts in the chair. The essay on "Socialism" was written by him in his brilliant volume, "The Case for Labour." They are given here with his permission. The monograph entitled, "Labour in Power," was written for The Daily Chronicle, and is reproduced here with his permission and that of the editor of The Daily Chronicle.
I also give a number of brilliant extracts from Mr. Hughes's speeches and writings to show his policy, opinions and sympathies. The table of dates in Mr. Hughes's career was corrected by himself.
"The Knights of the New Crusade," by a "Wounded New Zealander," is quoted by permission of The Times, and Mr. Murdoch's fine study of Mr. Hughes with the permission of the British Australasian.
I wish to express the great obligation under which I rest, for help in preparing this book, to Mr. Keith Murdoch, one of the Australian Press representatives in London, to Mr. M. Shepherd, the Prime Minister's private secretary, and to Mr. E. A. Box, the High Commissioner's private secretary.
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