SLUR ON NATIONALISTS

Evening Star, Issue 24919, 17 July 1943, Page 3

SLUR ON NATIONALISTS

ARTICLE IN OFFICIAL LABOUR PAPER m HOLLAND SEEKS REDRESS FROF.T PREMIER (P.A.) WELLINGTON, July : l6. The following letter has been addressed to the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, by tha leader of the National Party, Mr S. G. Holland : " Please refer to page 1 of this week'» official newspaper of the Labour Party,/tha 'Standard,' which contains a poisonous articlo attempting to link the National Party with an alleged attempt by a certain individual to injure the recent war loan. I need not remind you that my colleagues and I, and also many official* and members of the National Party, have, in common with officials and members of the Labour Partv, given the appeal for war funds our wholehearted support, with rucr-i- gratifying results. ■'•"'. "Regarding the circulation of allegation* about the repayment of loan moneys, you will recall my letter to you offering to associate myself "with any statement you cared to make in connection with that very matter. I regard the article referred to as a totally unjustified slur, and' an attempt to make political capital out of people who have honestly endeavoured to heh) the Government in a national cause. " I feel entitled, in common fairness, to ask that you .repudiate the base insinuations contained in the article, and feel that you will join with me in deploring any attempt to make political capital over a matter in which you and I, in the name* of our respective parties, used our combined influence to make so great a success."