UNITED SUPPORT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 June 1943, Page 2

UNITED SUPPORT

FOR THIRD LIBERTY LOAN URGED BY OPPOSITION LEADER. NO POLITICS WHERE THE WAR IS CONCERNED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Leader of the Opposition (Mr S. G. Holland) has added the weight and influence of his position to the appeal for full and prompt subscription to the Third Liberty Loan. In a statement last night he . strongly stressed the point that the objective is above all party differences. “The fact that the leader of a political party opposed to the Government Party has been invited to speak to the people of New Zealand on this subject is,” said Mr Holland, “very significant. I wish to emphasise that whatever differences we may have politically, this is an occasion when those differences are gladly dropped, and I am happy indeed to have the privilege of joining hands with the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in making this appeal for the funds necessary for carrying on the war. There are no politics where the war is concerned. and the financial needs of the war are far wider and far more vital than any political party, and just as we in the political arena are united in this appeal to our countrymen to contribute funds for victory, so I hope 'people in all walks of life too will unite in making this loan a gigantic success. If I may use an apt analogy, I would say the structure of democracy and freedom is ablaze and threatened and just as no one would argue as to what sort of fire engine should be used to put out a fire, so should we support this loan to finance a part of the United Nations’ Brigade that will extinguish the fire that threatens civilisation.

“We should show,” Mr Holland continued, “that our will to win is comparable with that of our fighting men. The loan is a challenge to all, and by filling it to overflowing, we will give another demonstration of faith in the justice of our cause. By holding back the flood of money today behind the dam of national security, we will have a reservoir in future from which to draw for reconstruction.”

Today, said Mi’ Holland, was a significant anniversary, for three years ago today, when we were being pressed back in France, our ally in the first war, Italy, came in against us. “I think it right and proper,” Mr Holland concluded, “that occasionally we should cast our minds back to those fateful days of adversity and live again our emotions and fears of that time, and, while giving thanks for our deliverance from the disasters which threatened us then, let us remember that we survived because our forces gave of their best and our workers gave of their best.. Though we stood alone, we did not shrink from the task.”