CALL FOR UNITY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 191, 15 July 1941, Page 6

CALL FOR UNITY.

IN NATIONAL AFFAIRS. WELLINGTON. July 15

The need for-.unity in national affairs was stressed by Mr vV. W. Mulholland. Dominion president of the Farmers Union, in his address to the annual conference to-day.

"A general election easts its shadow across the land," the president said. "The .parties are girding up their loins for a battle which loohu *s it it will be mainly one of 'You did', 'I didn't'—vociferously shouted from hundreds of platforms. Surely, there is something more important to be considered now than what somebody said in 1928, or what somebody else replied in 1932. There is a war on, a war shaking the very foundations oi humanity, demanding* every ounce of united .effort that we can put into it, if the earth is not to be overwhelmed in darkness and bitter misery perhaps for generations to come. It is a time for getting together and doing something about it. not for aimless wrangling. It is a time when we need all the best brains on the one side, with victory their objective, not divided into groups whose main objective is to out-shout the other fellow. We need competence in Government. Let us get it by getting together on it—not by blaming the other fellow. We need courageous decisions. Let us get together to" make them, and not blackguard the other fellow tor not doing it. Let us postpone our party arguments until we have finished the great argument with Hitler and Co. If we do that, we will have time to settle our smaller differences in the days to come. If we do not do that, the tvrant may settle them for all of us and we will not even be allowed to growl about it. The time is ripe, and more than ripe, for a real united national leadership calling us to victory. Let us have it."