OUT OF TOUCH?
MEMBERS OF CABINET "The older members of this House, particularly Cabinet Ministers, have, lost touch with the common people; they have forgotten the existence of 'the man in the street,'" declared Mr. S. W. Smith (National, Bay of Islands) in the House of Representatives yesterday when speaking in the Address-in-Reply debate. "As one who has recently relinquished the title of John Citizen, I say that we can and we will assist the Government to govern the country with the people and not merely to govern. That way lies Fascism and Nazism and we have had too much of it." • Mr. Smith said the Government had taken notice of the voice of a rowdy, militant section of the community and (interpreted it as the voice of the people. The ordinary people were inarticulate except through their representatives and they had not asked for very much in these troubled times. What they did ask for today was unity. How could unity be expected—unity that was so necessary and essential— if the Government persisted in clinging to party representation at all cost? Most of those who opposed the Government were as keen in forwarding the war effort as were 'Government supporters and were anxfous to make preparations for the time .when the war was over, ~
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 58, 9 March 1944, Page 4
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215OUT OF TOUCH? Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 58, 9 March 1944, Page 4
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