SECRET AGREEMENTS:

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 123, 25 May 1923, Page 3

SECRET AGREEMENTS:

; ■ ON NATIONAL QUESTIONS. | DENOUNCED BY SIR JOSEPH WARD. 'LABOURITE'S LITTLE DIFFERENCE. I (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) ! DUNEDIN. this day. At a patriotic demonstration in con- | nection with Empire Day, Sir Joseph j Ward said we should as a community | insist on the Home authorities not j treating us as children, as the}' had done more than once in the past, by not allowing to be made public reports by I capable men as to the best means of preserving the nation to which we bej longed. Secret agreements between I nations w-ere more responsible for 1 trouble than if they had all laid tbeir cards en the table and let each other know what they were doing. Mr. Munro, seconding a local resoluI tion, stated that there was a feeling of I doubt, put forward for political purI poses, that if the Labour party got into power it would make for disintegration !of the British Empire. He gave that an \ emphatic denial, and gave it denial with I responsibility as a member of Parlia- | ment and a member of the Labour party. Mr. Geo. Thomson (Communist) endea- ' vowed to move an amendment, but got Ino hearing. In the lull of a demonstraI tion against him Mr. Thomson said Mr. ■ Munro- would regret that he appeared !on the platform at this meeting.