LABOUR AND THE WAR
SIR JOSEPH WARD'S APPRECIATION.
LONDON, 3rd September.
. Sir Joseph Ward (New Zealand Finance Minister), interviewed, says he will return immensely struck with the fine spirit of all classes, their fixed determination to go right on, and their general aversion to a peace by negotiation. The latter would be a disaster to the whole of the civilised world. We were now certainly on th^ road to , victory, and it could only be a matter of time' to secure repayment ' for our great sacrifices. Labour had acted well. Without its cooperation the successful carrying- on of the war would have been impossible. There was no need for gloominess over the future. People who had provided their own, requirements as Britain had done during the war could be depended upon to meet after-war, conditions satisfactorily. He would go back satisfied that the authorities here Uvere anxious not to allow the Pacific Islands to Tevert to Germany.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 58, 5 September 1918, Page 7
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