DEFENCE POLICY
THE LABOUR PARTY'S VIEW.
MATTER FOR PARLIAMENT.
(Per Press Association.) 'AUCKLAND, April 30
Astonishment at a statement attri buted to Mr Forbes in a cablegram from Ottawa that lie saw no necessity for a discussion on Empire defence was expressed by the leader of the Labour Party (Mr Savage) m a statement to-day. No further evidence than this astounding statement was necessary, said Mr Savage, to prove how far the Prime Minister was out of touch with the thinking people of the Dominion Mr Forbes liad said that there was no need for discussion as to a policy which might menace the future of New Zealand people, might entail another sacrifice of our youth and repeat and extend the holocaust of 1914-18 and the subsequent, chaos, hardship, priva ion and disorder. . . The irony and danger of the position was that Mr Forbes was on his way to London, where he would act on a committee which would discuss f° rei S policy, defence, peace and war. M Forbes would attend that committee after' stating that New Zealand only needed to be notified of what Bntam proposed to do. . “Our future,” said Mr Savage, i bound up with the countries of the British Commonwealth. The Laboui Party will strengthen the ties of the nations of the Commonwealth. The Laboui' Party’s policy, m the present state of world thought, to take whatever steps are necessary to defei the Dominion and its democratic mstiSion”; tat this policy, to be successful, implies discussion, negotiation an agreement in which Parliament as the representative cl the people should ta -V , faturS m ae V Dominion and the British Commonwealth ent on the will to peace. ™? "V, can be rendered wholly ineffective if unknown commitments, lives of our people, aie to be m exclusively at the will of men_ whe. may not in any way understand the objeo tive and outlook of our peop • j “Our youth should not be for unknown causes • and policies and without reference to the representatives of the people.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 169, 1 May 1935, Page 7
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