"A Flaming Volcano"

Mr. Renouf's speech on Kagawa was marred by a nasal intonation. At times unexpected and undue emphasis on unimportant words made the speech sound like a power surge from 2ZB.

"For 15 years Kagawa lived in the slums proclaiming always that God is love: where there is God there is love." Mr. Renouf should read Professor Tawney on "Religion and the Rise of Capitalism." Get a man who suits you, Frank.

Mr. McDonald reopened the 1919 Peace Conference with the most promising of beginnings delivered in a clear voice and an easy natural manner. The middle of the speech was, as was all too common in the contest, a series of events chronologically arranged. Mustapha Kemal was finally put to bed 111 in 1938 and the audience settled back for a good solid two minutes peroration, which did not materialise. Specially commendable and successful features of Mr. McDonald's work were the variations of sentence length, and the clear arrangement of the whole speech. That falling Inflexion was again the besetting sin.