TIME TO CALL HALT

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20000, 27 July 1939, Page 5

TIME TO CALL HALT

ANTI-EMPIRE TALK NEED TO STAND TOGETHER (Parliamentary WELLINGTON, ibis day. Critical references made by Government speakers in the House of Representatives to the foreign policy being followed by Britain were denounced by Mr. S. G. Holland (Nat., Christchurch North). The member for Oamaru, Mr. A. H. Nordmeyer, he said, had made a biting attack on Mr. Neville Chamberlain. It was time to cease anti-Em-pire talk of the description that had been heard from Government speakers and to stand together in the common interests of all.

Mr. Holland challenged Mr. Nordmeyer to say whether he would have chosen any other course than that taken by Mr. Chamberlain at Munich. The alternative to the course taken then was war. Would Mr. Nordmeyer have chosen that alternative? “We have heard the member for Oamaru and his colleagues trying to tell England how to run England,” said Mr. Holland. “And look what a mess they have made bf little New Zealand.”’

The cry was often heard that New Zenianc's greatest enemies were those who had sent their money overseas. That was the Government’s story, but Mr Holland believed that the Dominion’s greatest enemies were those who were constantly jeering at people who made their money available to th« nation. The jeerers and scoffers had been of the greatest embarrassment to the Minister of Finance, the Hon. W. Nash, during his visit to London. They had been responsible for the signal failure of the Minister’s mission.

He hoped that the Government would be strong enough to stand up to its left wing, which must loathe arid deplore every line in the agreement made in Britain. , He also urged that the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, should Inform the House of th e details and conditions of the loan. In addition to that, the House should be informed of the Government’s plans for reducing expenditure down to the level of its income.