MORE ENERGY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 136, 9 May 1940, Page 9

MORE ENERGY

WAGING THE WAR. KEYNOTE OF COMMENT. MAXIMUM EFFORT. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received May 9, 9.45 a.m. RUGBY, May 8. The main feature of the Press comment this morning on yesterday’s House of Commons debate is tlie insistence on all sides for the prosecution of the war with the utmost vigour. There is no difference over the Government’s aims or its declared policy of bringing the war to a victorious conclusion. The criticism arises solely with regard to its energy and efficiency in carrying out what is the unanimous will of the nation.

The conclusion reached by the Times may he read into most of the editorial comment—“We shall not win this war with less than the whole capacity for leadership possessed by all the parties together.” Tho extension of Mr Churchill’s responsibilities is favourably commented on throughout the Press. The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Simon), in a speech, said no limit would be put on what Britain might have to spend, during the war. Britain’s only concern was putting forward the maximum possible effort for winning tho war. The ideal would be to meet this huge expenditure entirely from taxation, hut with so vast a sum this was impossible, and thus the great importance of the savings movement was apparent. In 23 weeks over £140,000,000 had been raised by savings certificates and defence bonds.

We were saving not because of something distant and mysterious, hut because of a simple thing—because the NaA system denied what we regarded as ordinary, everyday, human rights.