ACTUALISTS NEEDED

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 101, 23 January 1933, Page 8

ACTUALISTS NEEDED

Nations Should Lay Cards

on the Table

HIS EXCELLENCY’S VIEWS

Service.

Napier, Jan. 21.

In the present chaotic condition of the world leaders of public opinion are apt to be classed as either optimists or pessimists, such description often connoting an unjustifiably rosy or gloomy outlook, as the case may be, said the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, in an address at the Napier Chamber of Commerce dinner this evening. "The solution of the world’s deepseated maladies can only be found by the possession of cool heads, prudent minds and a compassionate spirit,” his Excellency said. “Confidence, the great harbinger of prosperity, is not to be achieved by an exaggerated degree of either cheerfulness or gloom, but by a clear realisation of the true facts of the world’s economic position, not only on the part of Governments or trained economists and financiers but by the whole body politic, whose ignorance or inadequate enlightenment may prove a formidable obstacle to the adoption of drastic remedies, the justice and efficacy of which may be crystal-clear to the student or the statesman but far from apparent to the man in the street.

“What the world needs to-day is neither optimists nor pessimists, but actualists. There never was a time when it was more essential for nations, statesmen and leaders of finance, industry and commerce to lay all their cards unreservedly upon the table and to keep the great democracies of the world fully apprised’of the true nature of current disorders and of the directions in which basic cures are most likely to be found.”