WAR SUPPORTED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23616, 28 March 1940, Page 15

WAR SUPPORTED

AUSTRALIAN | LABOUR NAZISM MUST Big DESTROYED MR. FORGAN SMITH'S VIEWS { I The war against ifiermany is suitported to the full b.\h the Premier of Queensland, Mr. W., Forgan Smith, who has arrived in ' Auckland. Mr. Forgan Smith has business to conduct, with the New Zealand His movements at presenjt are uncertain, but he may sail on Monday on a visit to Canada. Should hu not do this, he will probably remain tin the Dominion for a month. Mr. Forgan Smith isaid he heartily endorsed the recent -statement by the Australian Federal Lnibour leader. Mr. .1. Curtin, repudiating the New South Wales Labour Party'ii anti-war and "Hands off Russia" pjolioy. There had never been any question about Labour's attitude to the \4ar. The Federal Labour policy had beotn formulated at Canberra last year, and no group in New South Wales could alter it. As Mr. Curtin had stated, Labour regarded Germany's allies as enemies of Britain, and therefore of Australia.

"Totalitarian Stat fs taboo the individual. sneer at i jidividtial liberty and freedom, and elevate force. ' said Mr. Forgan Smith. ["Therefore, at its very basis totalitarianism is anti-social ami anti-Labour. By* I lie law ol its own being, to succeed it .must destroy tinideals which gave rise to the great Labour movement, f "We must defeat "Nazism and all the totalitarian States st find for. We must hold aloft the banm ir of freedom and individual liberty. A must establish the principle that n iankind is greater than the institution.s he creates. All these things we must do. so that freedom of thought an 3 action shall not by banished from tl'ie earth. All those things are involved ill the conflict, but we of the Labour m pvenient- must beware that, in strugp ling against those evils I have describeej. we do not sacrifice our own liberty jin the process." Mr. Forgan Smith said that conscription was not ;'fti issue yet in Queensland. So fai: enlistments in Queensland had bee; a more than the quota for that Stati i.