REMEDIES NOT DISCLOSED

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 81, 3 October 1938, Page 8

REMEDIES NOT DISCLOSED

(To the Editor.) Sir, —New Zealanders, who recognise a Ministry of Propaganda as the most vital (and least reputable) part of the machinery of dictatorship-Government, are gradually realising that we have our own Minister of Propaganda. Many, too, recognkr; that dictatorSocialism is the ohly workable variety of that system of government. Most of those who listened to the current weekly instalment of Socialist propaganda must have been annoyed by the use of this method to stir up class feeling arid resentnTent. The whole exhibition was a misuse by a paid civil servant of a public utility—a disgrace to a British Prime Minister who permits—even encourages—it. Doubtless listeners have already detected the futility of stirring up, in better times, resentment over the actions of honest men who did their best during the world's worst depression— a best which if no better, was no worse than others —even Labour Governments overseas. They will also remember the events of the financial crisis in England and, later, the vain efforts in the U.S.A. to cure poverty by ruthless spending. Why did not the Labour Party tell us at a time of crisis how it could lead the world to a solution of the problem of getting the wheels turning? Why does it not tell us now how it proposes to do it? For the simple reason that it has not the slightest idea! —I am, etc., VOTE FOR HONESTY.