LOFTIER THAN PARTY

Evening Star, Issue 21519, 18 September 1933, Page 12

LOFTIER THAN PARTY

PROFESSOR ON ROOSEVELT PLAM SECTIONAL INTERESTS DEFEATED [Peb United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, September 18. Mr T. A. Mander, formerly of New Zealand, but now assistant professor of political science at Washington University, arrived by the Aorangi. Commenting on the Roosevelt policy, he said the National Recovery Act was likely to have much more revolutionary effects on the political system than many imagined. He did not know what would happen to the • Federal system under the scheme. The political system had been modified, and there was now a running partnership between Capital and Labour and between agriculture and the Government. The important aspect of the Roosevelt movement, as of Hitler’s and Mussolini’s was the renewed emphasis placed on moral values ,and moral tasks in Government. For instance, though sectional interests in America usually were largely dominant, Mr Roosevelt in the first month of his plan had stood out successfully and successively against the banks, the returned soldiers, the Federation of •Labour, and the conservative employers, and yet had the people with him. There was a feeling that he stood for principles loftier than those prevailing in political parties.