“BLUNT PETER.”

Evening Star, Issue 25699, 24 January 1946, Page 10

“BLUNT PETER.”

Sir, —It would appear that a new star has appeared in the international firmament, to wit, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, designated in your issue of last evening “ Blunt Peter.” The aforesaid “ Blunt Peter ” has in no uncertain manner told both Fiance and South Africa where they stand in the matter of mandates. The fact that both these countries have suffered aggression from hostile Powers owning territories on the African continent does not seem to have entered into the calculations of “ Blunt Peter. ’ But may I ask why this bluntness is kept mainly for overseas consumption? When’bluntness was required with the Huntly mine strikers in 1942, did not “ Blunt Peter ” reward the striking miners and punish the farmers who were the unpffending owners of the<coal mines? Of all _ places where blunt speaking ns required it is most needed in this Dominion of ours, and the people to whom the blunt statements should be made are “ Blunt Peter’s ” own followers. Can you, Sir, give your readers any idea of when the campaign of “bluntness” is to open?—l am, etc., Barrage. January 23.