NEW ZEALANDER LOOKS AT UNITED STATES

Chronicle (Levin), 15 October 1946, Page 5

NEW ZEALANDER LOOKS AT UNITED STATES

-Press Association

T By Telegraph—

AUCKLAND, CICl. 1-t. "It is often enougli said that - the ehief obsession of.the United States is with the almighty dollar. A close second must be concern over Communism and the policy of the Soviet," said Mr. L. K. Munro, editor of the Herald, who returned by the Matson liner Monterey from San Francisco. This was not surprising in a eountry where private enterprise was for many almost the principle of the eonstitution and where fear of Bolshevism was lhucli older than the hatred of Fascism. Mr. Munro attended the Empire Press llnion eonference in London as a member of the New Zealand delegation. He travelled in European countries and returned via Ameriea. Industrial strife was far more bitter and widespread in the United States than in Britain, eommented Mr. Munro. Things were bad enough in; Britain 's eoal trade but, apart from that industry whieh was racked with unrest the world over, industrial conditions in Britain were remarkably stable. Communist agitators existed yet they had not the fertile field of hybrid and febrile nationalities to play on whieh existed in the United States. Britain 's unionists had a far great er sense of responsibility than those in Ameriea. The people of the United States, contemplating strike after strike and the presentation l>y union leaders of one demand after another while industries lay idle, had long ago reachod the coiu'lusion that Communists were l>ehind it all. They believed that Moscow was behind the Communists.