Post-War Planning
Sir, —For some weeks past your columns have had an almost daily cable from a certain New Zealand Minister now abroad advising England and the world what it should do after the war. Every now and again some would-be advanced thinker in England or America puts over similar ideas. Surely our experience after the last war ought to be ■ a warning against these planners. It Was these very men who pushed us into the League of Nations, reduced our armaments, cut down the navy, and prevented us nipping the rising imperialism of Japan and Germany in the bud. If after the war England or America can disarm their enemies, offer the world a square deal, look after their own business and keep their powder dry, they will have a sufficiently wholetime job without setting other nations’ affairs to rights. The problem of conducting a world war has strained the abilities of our best men, and the second-raters have no chance of imposing their puny views on a complex world. LET WELL ALONE.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20874, 28 August 1942, Page 6
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174Post-War Planning Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20874, 28 August 1942, Page 6
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