Can't Keep Good Things To Ourselves— Mr. Nash

Chronicle (Levin), 20 April 1949, Page 6

Can't Keep Good Things To Ourselves— Mr. Nash

NEW PLYMOUTH, April 19. "There is nothing we want more today than friendliness not oniy among oux-selves but also among the peoples oi the world," declared the Acting Prime Minister, Mr. Nash, at New Plymouth today when speaking to the conference of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows. Adopting qne oi' Ihe society 's aims, he said there never.was a time when there was a greater need to hold out the hanu of friendship to all peoples with the odjeet of . finding 7some way of fitting t'ogether the va|ious "expressions of the common aim to avoid wars. They couid avoid the menace of ideologies but' it would be wrong to disregard their e±fect, The peoples of the world were so close together today that some way or cooperation must be found. This was one of the rnost difficult decades "the world had known, with it3 promises of great progress and "po'tentialities for great disaster, but it was encouraging to realise that in spite oi all the varying views and disputes, there were seetions of the peoples oi the world who were linking themselves with the object of avoiding in future what the world had gone through so often in the past. "We should remember that more than half the people of the world never have enough to eat, " Mr. Nash emphasised, so he asked everyone to take a wider vision in order that all peoples might eventually have enough to eat, enough clo.hes to wear and deeent living conditions. New Zealanders should not imagine that they couid keep aii the good things to their o wh' h'Onies fbr others had a vision of the fnll life to which all were entitied.