LATE MESSAGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 September 1933, Page 7

LATE MESSAGES

AUCKLAND, September 18. Mr T. A. Minder, formerly of New Zealand, now Assistant Professoi* of Political Science, 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 vafues and moral tasks in the Government. For instance, through sectional interests

in America, usually largely dominant, Mr Roosevelt, in the first month of his plan, had stood out, successfullv and successively against the banks, returned soldiers, Federation of Labour, and conservative employers, and yet had the people with. him. There was a feeling he stood for principles loftier than those prevailing in political parties.