ROOSEVELT PLAN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 249, 18 September 1933, Page 2

ROOSEVELT PLAN.

FIRST-HAND OBSERVATIONS.

Per Press Association

AUCKLAND, Sept. 18. Mr T. A. Mander, formerly of New Zealand and now assistant professor of political science at Washington University, arrived by the Aora.ngi to-day. 'Commenting on the Roosevelt policy, ho 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.

An important aspect of the Roosevelt movement, as it was 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 were usually largely dominant, President Roosevelt in the first month of his plan had stood out successfully a.nd successively against the banks, returned soldiers, the Federation of Labour and conservative employers, and yet had the people with him. There was a feeling that lie stood for principles loftier than those prevailing in jmlitical parties.