THE GENERAL ELECTION.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20250, 30 May 1931, Page 16

THE GENERAL ELECTION.

TO TIM EbITOK OF TUB PEB33. • Sir,—lt is interesting'to -note the tjeii4 of events ' through the daily papers. Ihe correspondence .of the last week seems to point to an added, interest in the General Election, while the great problem of unemployment is occupying a minor place. ; Those . .who read in my letter of the 2flrd an attempt to : disparage any : political , Party read wrongly. My. argument was that the General Election should Jje postponed to make the way clear for a Coalition Government,. I did not liiention fusion (hence I do not suffer, from the "strange <Jelusion" to. which you referred in yesterday's leader)—thai . is' another thing quite apart from coalition. Does not the election campaign and the. subsequent olectiou with its huge cost soeihlike- selfishness under tho prevailing conditions? Many seem to boost tho "election rush",' for purely personal gain, when national stability should be the aim of all. But that . awn' may only he achieved by' .unity Of purpose. To say that the United Party: jias had no unity of purpose in the past Jis to brush * aside, the Those who read with a prejudiced mind see faults of the past in every Party, without troubling, "about the greater i aspect of tho futuro; for the past offers tho sum total, of their experiehcp whereby they inay be guided in the future." If;' the clectiouv wore . postponed and a Coalition- Government: :set up, then, - .arid only, .then, ' would the'. muddling and bungling of Parties'cease; and the foundation be laid for tho solid road to safety and stability.—Yours, etc., T.J.L. May 29th, 1931.