N.Z. WAR CABINET

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 165, 15 July 1942, Page 5

N.Z. WAR CABINET

COMMENT IN BRITAIN Special Correspondent. LONDON, July 14. A curious compromise has been reached in New Zealand in the attempt to give the Opposition greater participation in the conduct of the war, says the Economist. The journal adds:— "It is difficult not to feel that there will be a certain amount of overlapping between the Labour and National members of the War Administration—between the Minister of Industrial Manpower and the Minister of National Service, the Minister of Defence and the Minister of Armed forces and War Co-ordination, and between the Minister of Finance, when he returns, and the Minister in charge of War Expenditure. "Moreover, It Is quite impossible to separate war measures from domestic affairs. War economy is indivisible, and the allocation of resources to military and civilian purposes is a single process. "But the fact that politicians had to compromise on unity should not cast any reflection on the national unity, or on the determination of New Zealanders to wage war, both against Japan and Germany, to the utmost. The activities of the New Zealand troops in Egypt are evidence enough of that."