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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 March 1943, Page 3

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FOR POST-WAR FUTURE UNFOLDED BY CHURCHILL. COMMENT IN BRITAIN. ! (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, March 21. “Mr Churchill’s speech was by far the most important even lie has delivered,” says the “Daily Mail.” “The British people have never before had unfolded before them a conception so vast, so comprehensive and so stimulating. Here, at last, is a real charter for the post-war future. "The Churchill Plan, as it will undoubtedly become known to us and to historians, is one to grip everyone s imagination. Its scope is stupendous, and it will take time to digest. This is not a vision of a remote future. It is a four-year plan to be ready for operation as soon as possible after the war.” "The Times” says: “Mr Churchill's proclamation of a four-year plan may well mark an epoch in the social policy of the country. Little can be expected on such an occasion beyond the main outlines of the programme, but these are encouragingly comprehensive. Mr Churchill, however, seemed to speak of money as a static, limiting factor, and to ignore the extent to which a dynamic social and economic policy can create the new wealth from which it is financed. Mr Churchill’s other note of perhaps exaggerated caution is an apparent assumption that no substantial advance can be made along the lines of social progress till after the war, and, indeed, for some time afterward. It will be a grave disappointment to the people if no foretaste of the reforms can be offered even while the war lasts.” WARM APPROVAL EXPRESSED IN UNITED STATES. FUTURE WORTH FIGHTING FOR. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) NEW YORK, March 22. Mr Churchill’s approval of an international organisation to preserve world peace from future aggression has been hailed enthusiastically in Washington. The New York '■Herald-Tribune” says it is particularly opportune in the light of the resolution now before Congress, which is designed to achieve that result. It observes that Mr Churchill drew a picture of a future worth fighting for, and adds, “One cannot help contrasting it with the vague, elusive mist of contradiction and uncertainties, surrounding the future policies and purposes of the United States. “Mr Churchill spoke as a leader, impressing coherence upon Britain’s aims and issues of the times, but the United States in these critical days is finding no such voice and achieving no such clarification of its objectives. We cannot yet discuss the details, but we need some better grasp of the general problem, and some agreed formulation of the broad ends in the economic policy and statesmanship toward which we are marching.”' “Peals of victory bells rang through the speech, comments the “New York Times.” “Supremely confident of success and knowing that Britain and hdr allies have safely passed through the worst, Mr Churchill calmly proceeded to map out a programme for a better world,. He is so certain of the final outcome of the war that he devoted himself mostly to domestic issues, even hinting at a partial demobilisation when Hitler is defeated. It was a speech promising a more abundant life after victory.” Congressmen of both parties generally expressed approval, and Mr Sol Bloom, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, called it the realistic blueprint of a carefully prepared plan to meet war and post-war conditions with complete confidence of ultimate victory. ‘ MASTERLY EXPOSITION NEW ZEALAND PREMIER IMPRESSED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. _ Commenting on Mr Churchill’s broadcast, the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, said that from the vigorous tone of hj's speech no one would imagine that he had just recovered from a severe 'illness. The manner in which he dealt with the various war and postwar questions was masterly. “His warning against undue optimism in imagining that the’war was already nearly won, and his emphasis on the difficult, hard and long road yet to be trodden before victory is achieved,” said Mr Fraser, “is specially valuable at this stage when there may be a tendency to relax the war effort of the United Nations on the wrong assumption that the defeat or collapse of the Nazi and Fascist powers may be imminent. “Mr Churchill’s references to social security, equality of opportunity in education and, indeed, generally to post-war trade, unemployment and international relationships, political, economic and commercial, were most interesting and impressive.” In regard to Mr Churchill’s special reference to consultations with the Dominions about questions of international trade and finance after the war, as well as immediate post-war relief for the devastated countries, Mr Fraser said that the New Zealand Government was at present closely examining some of the proposals submitted to it in this connection through the Secretary of State for the Dominions.