HEADING FOR WAR

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20499, 16 May 1938, Page 8

HEADING FOR WAR

MR JORDAN ATTACKED ATTITUDE AT GENEVA (Special to iTme3.) TAURANGA, Sunday “We will bring Mr Jordan's job to an end next November, when the Socialist Government will be driven out of office,” said Mr F. W. Doidge, National candidate for Tauranga, speaking at Oropi. “In the meantime, Mr Jordan should be told that it is hjs job not to sell munitions in Madrid, but to sell butter in TooJey Street.” Criticising the comments of Mr W. J. Jordan, New Zealand High Commissioner, at Geneva, Mr Doidge said intervention in Spain meant war—a European war—and that was the course to which Mr Jordan was committed. “ It is the policy of Mr Chamberlain and the British Government to keep Britain out of war,” added Mr Doidge. “ It is Mr Chamberlain's policy, as far as possible, to keep Britain clear of the feuds and intrigues of the Continent and to keep clear of the madhouse which is Europe. Mr Jordan speaks in the name of New Zealand, and to the people of Britain is conveyed the idea that New Zealand is a disaffected unit of the Empire. Every New Zealander knows that this is a wickedly wrong impression to create.” MR JORDAN CONGRATULATED RATIONALISTS’ RESOLUTION (Special to Times) AUCKLAND, Monday A resolution congratulating the High Commissioner for New Zealand, Mr W. J. Jordan, on his attitude at recent League of Nations meetings, was carried unanimously at a meeting held under the auspices of the Rationalist Association last night. The resolution, which will be forwarded to the Prime Minister, Mr Savage, is as follows:—“That this meeting forwards- congratulations through the Prime Minister to Mr Jordan for his consistently courageous attitude in the face of opposition at the recent League of Nations meetings at Geneva. We maintain that the course pursued by him is the' only one consistent with the preservation of the democratic freedom of the peoples of the world.”