NATIONALISTS AND SOCIAL CREDITERS

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27679, 8 June 1955, Page 3

NATIONALISTS AND SOCIAL CREDITERS

Sir.—Mr F. W. Stevens said that I was a victim of Labour propaganda and then launched into the familiar old fairy tale about Social Credit. He did not, however, answer my question —what has caused the rift between the Tories and their former friends and allies, the Social Crediters? Some time back, Mr Nordmeyer said that there would be a Social Credit party as long as the National Party wanted it. Now that the local Tory chairman has described Social Credit as “an enemy to New Zealand,” it looks as if the Social Crediters, with their incredibly fantastic theories, are going back into that oblivion which swallows all vote-splitters.—Yours, etc., CITIZEN. June 7, 1955. Sir, —I was glad to see Mr Stevens defending reply to the Jenkins and Howe criticism of the Social Credit system, and to know that whenever attacks are made upon it, there is someone with the knowledge who is ready and waiting to defend it; because there will be an all-out attack on this system before next election, for the simple reason tfiat those who will be behind it know that if the Social Crediters go in they do not. Those with the evidence to defend the social credit monetary system, however, will welcome the attack, because there is no better way to let the people of New Zealand see the strength of the one and the weakness of the other. This indisputable evidence was an eyeopener to me.—Yours, etc., Hokitika, June 4, 1955.