A PASSING PHASE

Southland Times, Issue 20081, 19 January 1927, Page 8

A PASSING PHASE

SOCIALISTIC TENDENCIES. OF YOUTHS AT HOME.

Questioned concerning the outlook of the younger generation at Home, Mr. H. Horton, of Auckland, who returned from a visit to the Old Country, stated that he thought they followed their parents a good deal. There was talk of some of the university students having Socialistic tendencies, but he regarded that as a phase that youth often passed through. “The Old Country at heart,” he stated, “is very sound, and extremists have had a great set-back—their moderate policies are the only ones that will count in the future. The Labour Party in Great Britain, it might be said, has much sympathy with the old Liberals, and associated with it are many men of quite moderate news. Nobody is more anxious than these people to prevent the extremists from getting control and endangering their party. It is considered that the Liberal Party in England—as in New Zealand and other places—is doomed to eventually disappear, and that the Labour Party will really in the future be the Liberal Party under a different name. Those who have been associated with the House of Commons contended that, should the Labour Party gain power in the future in England, its policy will not differ greatly from that of the old Liberals: and those who expect dangerous and extreme experiments wall be disappointed.”