NEW ZEALAND’S DUTY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 June 1943, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND’S DUTY

FINANCING THE WAR. AMERICA’S FINE EXAMPLE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. “Need we sit back waiting for forced saving—our American allies are raising war loans which make the 35 million Liberty Loan effort appealsmall, unless we contrast the respective populations,” states the National War Loan Committee. “But. with all their astronomical figures. the United States war loans have received the popular backing. Announcing the latest success, Mr H. Morgenthau, Secretary to the Treasury, said something New Zealanders also feel in relation to the Third Liberty Loan: ‘The success of our war loan,’ said Mr Morgenthau, ‘proves that Americans are not going to sit back and wait for any forced savings plan in order to finance the most expensive war in history.’

“New Zealanders are being asked to save and sacrifice for war lending, and the only compulsion is their own conscience. If we are still getting ample food, with no unpalatable substitutes, and enjoying the highest standard of living in the world, can we feel easy in our consciences unless we do something really hard every day in the way of war effort? Human life is being risked today to keep a ruthless, fanatical would-be invader of Now Zealand a few thousand miles from our homes. There was a time when we had to make ready for invasion. Millions have been spent and we are still comfortable. Thirty-five more millions are wanted this year from everyone who is safe behind the splendid human rampart of our fighting services.”