IN WAR THEATRE
NEW ZEALAND MAN IMPRESSIONS RECORDED A great change in the attitude of people towards national and social issues is noted by a New Zetalandei who writes from a war centre in London. "'I am sure this war is' doing a lot of good to the life of England," he "The challenge to existence is introducing measures of efficiency and fairness in the "social life that emild scarcely have been deemed possible in pre-war days. People are reviewing whether what they arc doing is in the 'war-interest,' which, of course, means the best for the whole State; whether they are tfsing their capabilities for the greatest social good. There is a questioning in! the minds of most as to whether they are doing all; they can for this purpose, placing individual motives and objectives, otherwisci desirable, in second placeOne feels the complacency and 'laissez-faire' spirit being ousted right and left. I get the impression that this is more so than in 1914-18 probably one of the advantages of a totalitarian war."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 306, 16 May 1941, Page 3
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173IN WAR THEATRE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 306, 16 May 1941, Page 3
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