IS DOLLAR DIPLOMACY STATE CONTROL?

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 90, 23 May 1949, Page 4

IS DOLLAR DIPLOMACY STATE CONTROL?

Sir, —What are the possible explanations of present day events, ending in a dollar crisis? The most common and the one adopted by the Opposition is that it is due to the incompetence of - the Socialist Administration. This explanation accepted at face value is the protest of “party government,” up to each successive crisis that all is well and would soon be better.

This implies a fundamental agreement on the economic policy being pursued, and that it merely criticises the administration in power ... Is Socialism a mistake? As any student of political affairs knows, a Government functions all the time by the aid of its experts. In the face of this fact, administrative incompetence is quite untenable, even deliberate. So what we want is an assurance, that. those • important sections of the community are not the victims of a crafty utilisation of a crisis that is being deliberately allowed to be developed to a point that those powers can be taken to hasten a Socialist, or bureaucratic transformation, under party administration. U It has been' the fashion ascribe j political mistakes to ineptitude % rather than to the subordination of 'I the individual so that the contradistinction of the poverty midst plenty of the 193 Q’s, and the “full employment” operations of the bureaucratic state, in our post-war years should not be overlooked, being the ■ insignia of the servile state.

Yours etc., W. BRADSHAW.