STATESMANSHIP WANTED
"We read in the press of other political movements outside the existing parties—-a People's Movement, a Freedom League, a Progressive Liberal Party —but when we examine the situation. it is not a question of persons, but of policy." said Dr. O. C. Mazengarb, when addressing a National Party meeting at Feilding. "True, statesmanship does not arise from arranging a league of discontented elements in the _ community, but from arranging a union of interests. The Labour Party came into office by arranging a league of all disaffected people. The faddists and extremists are now driving it along the road it promised to take, although the moderate elements in the party now know that this is the road to ruin. And so the Government is trying to mark time, taking compulsory powers without using them, issuing decrees and trying to patch up difficulties. But patchwork will not do. We want statesmanship."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23830, 4 December 1940, Page 12
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