MONEY GIFT TO BRITAIN
MR FRASER’S FURTHER REPLY “MUDDLED MUTTERINGS” (P.A.) WELLINGTON, March 8. “Muddled mutterings”’ as the phrase chosen to-day by the Prime Minister (Mr Fraser) to describe the latest contribution of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr S. G. Holland) to the controversy the two political leaders are having over New Zealand’s £12,500,000 gift to Britain. “I did not state or infer that Mr Holland was opposed to helping Britain,” said Mr Fraser. “I did show clearly that he had no coherent idea of how Britain could be most effectively and beneficially helped at the present time. In fact, his petulant outburst was a unique example of confused and mixed economics, resulting only in muddled mutterings about matters dimly discerned. “Mr Holland attempted to criticise the Government’s action without furnishing even passable criticism. He indicated opposition to the £12,500,000 financial gift without mustering any intelligible argument in support of that opposition. The result was just incongruity,” Mr Fraser said.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25129, 10 March 1947, Page 3
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