WHITHER BOUND HUMANITY

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 33, 18 December 1945, Page 4

WHITHER BOUND HUMANITY

power and plan what they will do with it. That nuans that, a small privileged minority with no responcontrol the lives of the great majority. In America —land of individual en-terprise-—Mr Wallace, Secretary of Commerce predicts there will be 7 000,000 unemployed by next year —Herald December 3. With millions dying throughout the world from lack of bare a socialist country would not allow such criminal waste. In fact as Dr. Irving Langmuir states on the same page of the Herald there is , never any unemployment in the Soviet Union. It is true tbat in capitalist countries finance capital does control the policy of the but it controls it in its own interests and not in the interests of humanity. Yours etc., J. SMITH.

Sir —It is difficult to know whether Mr Darran makes so many untrue statements through, lack of" knowledge or a deliberate wish to mislead.. However I should like to refute one or two from his last letter quoting the N.Z. Ilerald as my authority. j He states that Hitler was supported by the masses and bitterly opposed by the industrialists. , The Herald December 3 in an article on the arrest of the Nazi ; steel magnates, quotes, a senior British Officer as saying that they wtjxe arrested because there was complete under r standing between them and the Nazi party. "The weight ol' German heavy industry was behind the Nazi party even before it came to power " he stated. Everyone who has made any study of international knows that Naziism and Fascism ar<e both dic-» tatorship of the most reactionary sections of finance capital. Mr Darran says there is only one power people possess over governments—individual ownership of the means of production the right of the individual to plab what he does with what he owns. (In a capitalist country 10 per cent of the ! people (this is a generous estimate —it is probably more like 5 per cent) have control of the 5 Financial