NEW ZEALAND, WAR AND FASCISM.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 205, 30 August 1935, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND, WAR AND FASCISM.

Your editorial assertion in Friday's "Starthat not a single New Zealander wants war raav soon be put to a severe test if J| hin §' go 'askew at Geneva on September 4, thougn one is at a loss to discover any possible feasible excuse tliat Great Britain present to lier people for entry into the ItaloAby &s Lilian imbroglio. We who work year in and year out against war know just what public feeling is on the matter of war and yet cannot estimate how much support or opposition would be available to a Government which precipitated New Zealand's participation in another world war. It seems to me that New Zealand's participation or aloofness from the expected conflict depends not so much on the somewhat uncertain legal position nor on that much-vaunted and overworked sentiment as on the amount of wholehearted opposition to a slavish adherence to tradition, and a spurious patriotism. _It remains for the time being a problematical factor and not even editorial omniscience can fathom it. As to the prospects for Fascism in Great Britain or New Zealand, I would he happy if I could so easily dismiss it as you have "done. I can assure you that there are all the potentialities hero amongst us, though as vet the signs have not been displayed as in Britain. AGAINST WAR AND FA'SOISM.