POST-WAR POLICY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 February 1943, Page 2

POST-WAR POLICY

NEED OF CONTINUING CONTROLS IN ECONOMIC AND TRADE AFFAIRS. hF r " DECLARED BY BRITISH MINISTER. (British. Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February 13. The Home Secretary, Mr Herbert Morrison, speaking at Nottingham, outlined the results of the abandon- , ment of all controls immediately afterJL the last war and of the failure to produce any co-ordinated plan for the change-over from war to peace. “This time,” he said, “we want to switch over from war economy to peace economy as quickly as we can, but sensibly, knowing what we are doing. In short we must have rationing in appropriate forms for the sake of fairness at home and for the sake of keeping the ship of State on an even keel. We must have raw material controls, too, because it will be as necessary then as now to make certain that first things come first, that our export trade gets what it needs and that at home various commodities go where they will do most good. “In getting back to a sound peace basis, we shall also want price control, without which there will certainly be an astronomical rise in prices with aTr the dangers of inflation.” Mr Morrison said he also considered necessary a greatly increased consular service; an intensive programme of commercial and technical education; a right on the part of the State to examine the situation and circumstances of any export industry which is in difficulties and a readiness by the State to give help in meeting the need, provided that the home market, equal with the export market, shall benefit from such help; and help between State and industry. He would ask nothing more of Britain, he said, than that she should face and deal with the problems of the postwar world in the spirit of 1940 —the fine, brave spirit of Winston Churchill, who declared in that menacing situation: “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight in the streets, we shall never surrender.”

NEED OF UNITY

IN SAFEGUARDING PEACE. AFFIRMED BY ALLIED SPEAKERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, February 13. Opening United Nations Month ceremonies, Mr Sumner Welles, in a broadcast, urged the Allied nations to agree now on a post-war programme to avert disastrous rivalries. There was no surer road to disaster, no surer means of bringing unmitigated havoc, than our entrance into the post-war period as commercial and financial opponents rather than as collaborators seeking international stability and wellbeing, he said. Expressing regret that Russia was not represented at the ceremonies, Mr Welles said that in any gathering symbolising the United Nations, the presence and participation of the Soviet was imperatively required. Lord Halifax said this was not a mete defensive war. Mankind was also marching to win a new, peaceful world order. Lord Halifax expressed a hope that the peoples of the United Nations would retain their present unity after the war, and abandon! old jealousies and suspicions. Dr. Tao-ming, the Chinese Ambassador, said the present war was the result of the isolation of self-seeking ways of individual nations since 1918. Therefore • the alliance of the United Nations must be maintained after the war in order to win the peace.