A MESSIANIC DELUSION

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21861, 14 August 1936, Page 18

A MESSIANIC DELUSION

TO TEE EDITOE OT THE PEE9S. Sir, —It was with extreme disgust that I read your sub-leader in yesterday morning’s issue, and also the letter under the title “A Messianic Delusion,” in this morning’s issue. Your remarks on the occasion I mention are to my mind nothing short of low. It surely does not require a person of very high intellect to see that the Hon. D. G. Sullivan was merely pointing out that if a small country like this could not solve the economic problems affecting humanity, it would surely be harder for a larger country to do so.

Personally, I feel that if this country does solve, as I believe it will, the difficulties confronting it, other countries will follow our lead. Quoting you, “Yes, and even Irishmen —will go to their graves without ever knowing that Mr Sullivan appointed himself to be their deliverer.” Is this supposed to be humorous? Because to my way of thinking it is not even that. In reference to your correspondent who signs himself “Promises?”, he is apparently one of the many “fair weather friends" which the Government had at the time of the election. I can only hope that when the 1938 your correspondent so looks forward to comes, there will be many people in this country thinking as I do, and will return the present Government with an even bigger majority.—Yours, etc., ONLY A GIRL. August 12, 1936.

TO the CDITOB or tbs fkess. Sir,—ln your leading article of Tuesday, you make it appear that the world at large gives little heed to any lead that New Zealand may make in social legislation—that we sometimes delude ourselves into thinking that all eyes are on New Zealand. I dare say if we shuffle along in “the sleepy hollow” style no one would pay much attention to us, unless it was to give us a prick now and again, just to see if we were still animate. But when Mr Savage and his party said definitely in their election manifesto that they would use the public credit to establish a money system which would equate buying power with production, and were elected on that pledge, I do believe that the world did roll its eyes our way. Alberta, too, an insignificant state in Canada, promised to do much the same hj thing, and the world wondered —and still wonders. When, however, our Government, as indicated i the budget, decided to equate buying power with production by redistributing our present totally inadequate supply of “tickets,” as our Mr Howard calls them, it is quite certain that the eyes went back with a click (leaving Mr Savage fiddling to the plaudits of orthodox finance'' possibly to castles in Spain, or maybe to dwell on the childish delusion of making mother’s scones bigger by flattening them out. —Yours, etc.,

CONSUMER CREDIT, August 13, 1936.