"PLAYING AT POLITICS."

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 161, 9 July 1940, Page 6

"PLAYING AT POLITICS."

By now J[r. Gainor Jackson will have realised that Marshal Potnin is nothing •hut Hitler's puppet "fuehrer of France," Jle (retain) will no<doubt continue to utter beautiful phrases like the "spirit o£ sacrifice," carefully designed to get the people of France ready for sacrifice at the feet of a deified "Fuehrer." Mr ! Archambault with his talk of fcritain i and Trance "playing at politics while the enemy was ttt the gate" seems to in leading in the same direction ■without knowing it. So subtle is Hitler! Thank heaven Britain was "playing politics" if the alternative was handing herself over gagged and bound to an imitation Fuehrer with his pretence of "unifying" the nation. Mr, Jackson wants the country to forgo the 40-hour week. And so it will forgo,-and is forgoing it, in. industries concerned with the war effort. What is the use of dividing the country on this issue in order to get longer hours in beauty parlours? Or in any of the thousands of shops and offices that produce and sell nothing to do with the war? It would produce a whole lot of ill-feeling and do no goad, 2Coxt, Mr. Jackson wants a "national Cabinet." So do I. But we, the people.; cannot produce such a symbol of Unity' unless we are united. We produce our Government— our Government does not produce us. B. SATCHELL,