INEVITABILITY OF WAR
ENGLISHMEN RESIGNED VIEWS OF MR. H. M. RUSHWORTH [HY TEIjKGRAI'H—PHKSB ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Tuesday The National Government's policy in Britain was regarded with fear by the average Englishman, said Mr. H. M. Rushworth, M.P., who returned to New Zealand yesterday, and the English appeared to be resigned to the inevitability of a war, although no one seemed to know who was to be fought or whv.
From his observations in the House of Commons, Mr. Rushworth gained the impression that there was no effective Opposition to the Government. Politicians he had talked to were very guarded in all their remarks on policy, but he gained the impression that a federated Empire would be of more importance than quotas or embargoes at the next Imperial Conference. ''Really, New Zealand counts for practically nothing, and interest is only sustained in certain highbrow circles," Yr. Rushworth said in reply to an inci • ry about the interest the New Zeal:.i. 1 Government's legislation aroused at Home. A good deal of interest had, however, been taken in the Labour' Government's monetary policy, and socialistic tendencies were considered to-j lie in the- increaees-in-taxation.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22585, 25 November 1936, Page 15
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