WAR CABINET ADVOCATED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 May 1940, Page 8

WAR CABINET ADVOCATED

TIME FAVOURS THE EFFICIENT.

Time is never the automatic anu unconditional friend of any belligerent, writes Mr. J. L. Garvin. It favours the more efficient. Time is never a neutral, either. It may change sides, and more than once, before finally fixing its support on behalf of those whose energy and ability have excelled. In other words, time, like Providence, helps those who help themselves. The second truth is inseparable from the first. It is that the practical value of potential resources, however great, depends on the vigour and grip with which you develop and apply them, in ordinary life we see a thousand instances of this around us every day. Some men can do more with little than others with much. Again and again in the history of war the slower use of superior resources has been thwarted by superior organisation. The question for the British nation and the Empire is whether we are yet making the best use of our means. The reply is that we are not. Then why? The plain answer again is that it is impossible to make the best use of our means until the present system of direction is altered and energised by the creation of a real “War Cabinet,” such as that which led us to victory before.