COALITION PLAN

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20129, 26 December 1939, Page 3

COALITION PLAN

STRONG DISAPPROVAL v VIEWS OF MR. F. W. DOIDGE e 6 POLICY OF SOCIALISM it h ■■ “I am only expressing my o\vn .point of view, but I strongly disagree with d the suggestion made by Professor is Algie in Auckland that there should e be a coalition of political parties for o the duration of the war,” said Mr. F. W. Doidge. M'.P.. when speaking in a Hamilton. e “A few. nights ago.” continued the d speaker, "‘the Prime Minister declared t over the air that he would be untrue a to supporters of his party if there was s any slackening of the policy of socialisation., Even though we entered into . coalition on the understanding that I there was to be no new legislation of a controversial nature, we shotdd still have to be a party to the administration of legislation passed in the last ‘ weeks of last session. That legislation * was prepared on a Socialist kitchen: cooked in a Socialist oven. Every bit of it reeks, of brimstone. He who sups with the devil needs a long spoon. Coalition is not, I hope, for us.” “If, for the war’s duration, the ■ basis of Government was broadened J by the inclusion in the Cabinet of men ' with proved business knowledge and. experience," Mr. Doidge concluded, “that would be an excellent thing. That can still be done. But our job in the National Party, it seems to.me. is clear. It is our job to see that New Zealand plays her full part in helpin'' the Motherland to destroy Nazism and win the war. It is also our iob to > ensure the overthrow of socialism in New Zealand.”