PEARL HARBOUR

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 11, 2 October 1942, Page 3

PEARL HARBOUR

REACTION OF ATTACK

The first reaction of the people to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour was one of stunned amazement, and some New York people wondered if it was something like a repetition of Orson Welles' dramatic broadcast of one of 11. G. Wells' stories, which had created a panic ia the city just over a year previously. slated, an Auckland citizen who has just returned from America. There was confusion over air-raid alarms but no panic. In Government circles anger was soon translated into a desire for unity, and a determination to subordinate all other i activities to the things ol war. A Bill bringing Avar appropriations to two and a half tmes the total military costs to the United. States in the first world Avar was quickly passed, and almost immediately the amount; Avas more than doubled, and had. since been very much added to. A political truce was made with the Opposition (the Republican Party), who- agreed that they would not permit politics to binder national defence programme, reserving their right to contest the 1912 elections. and. to fight domestic issues. Employers and labour got together with Government mediation, and agreed to three points: (1) No strikes or lockouts for the duration; (2) settlement of disputes by concilation and arbitration: (M) the creation of a Avar labour board ito handle such disputes.