WHAT WILL MR. LANGSTONE DO?
AUCKLANP,-Aigust 3. _ ' 1 Althougli it is impossible at this stage to quote aecuratfe figutes, it must be obvious that there ai,e> tens df tlionsands of people in New- Zealfincl who fall into the catfegory o.f those classifietl with Comniunists and fellowtravellers, " said Mr. F. Langstone, Govemment member fdi' Roslcillj . toPight. Mf: Langstone was a leader of the anti-epnscriptiOn movement;^. fThis alone would sound the deathknell of the Labour Govemment but wlien it is eOnsidered that n.ot morO than 25 per eenti of thfe pebple havd been given the opportunity of hearin^ the other side- of the storv, the result is very Iieartening ind'eed. With all the forees of the fiess, radio and public money ranged hgaihst the anticonseription movelnent, with twd major politieal parties niiited against us, and without tlie neeessary time to enlist.tlie support of those pdople wlto are ignorant of the facts, eve'n the present iigures eonstitiite a moral victory for anti-eojiseription. ' ' Mr. Langstone was aslced if lie regarded the majdrltv of n earlv thrbe to one ih his eleteorate, in favdiir of cOm pplsory training, as a vo'te of no-eonfi-denee in hiiu as member. He said il was a mhtter for considefatiOn.
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 August 1949, Page 8
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