INCREASED EFFORT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 February 1942, Page 3

INCREASED EFFORT

DEMANDED IN HOUSE OF COMMONS GREAT CHANCE OF NEW GOVERNMENT. EMPHASISED BY VERNON BARTLETT. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.13 a.m.) RUGBY, February 25. The debate on the war situation was continued in the House of Commons today and the main line that emerged, as in yesterday’s speeches, was that of the desire of members for a much stronger national war effort. Mr Vernon Bartlett said he believed the new Government had a great chance of reviving the spirit of enthusiasm, to the disappearance of which almost every member Who had spoken in the debate had drawn attention. He thought there could be no real national effort without the conscription of every man and woman in Britain, with a basic minimum wage. • Mr L. Hore-Belisha said the implications of total war had not yet been

accepted and that industry should be as much a fighting army as the military services. He welcomed the reconstructed Government, but it must stand or fall by the manner in which it met the needs of war. Mi’ S. V. T. Adams asked the House not to underestimate the Japanese, who in some ways Were more terrible than the Germans, because their needs were less and they were more indifferent to their individual safety. Several members again referred to the need for a speedy declaration of Government policy on the Indian question.