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LOOKING AHEAD

PLANNING AFTER THE WAR

“Let us, when the time comes to make our British new order, continue to thank God for the diversity of His creatures. There must, of course, be seme planning, both nationally and internationally, economic as well as political and strategic. But let us remember that there are limits to what planning can achieve,” said Mr F. A. Voight, editor of the “Nineteenth Century,” in a recent address. “No war, however victorious, no ’ revolution, however triumphant, no radical and sweeping movement of reform, however successful, has ever gone according to plan. Who can plan even his own life? What parents can plan even the life of a docile child? What man running a business, what woman running a household, does not know that the unforeseen will again and again upset every plan. How presumptuous, therefore, to imagine that we can plan the future of. the world, of a continent, or even of a nation! We shall have to face the European situation empirically, as it emerges; we shall have to face it with open, balanced and resolute minds—and, I should like to add, with some recollection of old and not wholly disestablished wisdom and experience. Then, and only then, shall we be able to give the new order that inner balance, that natural organic strength, which will give permanence, social freedom and diversity. There is much one must plan, much one must prepare for, but freedom and diversity cannot be planned; they require an open mind and a fresh understanding, a certain depth, and a certain ability to discard the preconceived and to deal with the unexpected.”

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1941, Page 6

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272

LOOKING AHEAD Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1941, Page 6

LOOKING AHEAD Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1941, Page 6

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