LETTERS TO EDITOR Political Unity

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 306, 21 September 1943, Page 4

LETTERS TO EDITOR

Political Unity

‘■Sir, — A public utterance attributed to Mr. Frost, Labour M.P. for New Plymouth, to the effect 'that "if the National Party came into power and asked the Labour Party to join iu to form a National Govorniiment, the latter would refuse as they were not going to have their brains sucked,” make one doubt the genuineness of the pious hopes so frequently expressed by the Prime Minister and the Hon. Mr. Nash for a new Christian order after the war. Co-operation is anathema to the Labour Party: witness Australia when war broke out. The then Government offered Cabinet seats to the Opposition Labour Party for the period of the war and to sink party differences, and was refused co-operation. Here is New Zealand, the Government refused to form a National Government, desiring to carry out all its Socialistic experiments, war or no war. How can we expect countries with entirely dissimilar peoples to join in any utopian ideal, when in a young British community the Government delights to stir up all the bitterness possible between various sections of the population.—l am. etc., UNITY. Wellington, September 20.