VERY GREAT JOY

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 25048, 11 November 1944, Page 8

VERY GREAT JOY

COMMENT WORK WITH MR ROOSEVELT ANOTHER MEETING SOON LONDON. Nov. 9 Reference to the American Presidential election was made by Mr Churchill in a speech today at the Mansion House. He said that now he felt free to express on personal grounds the very great joy it gave hira to know "that my wartime and intimate co-operation with Mr Roosevelt will be continued in the months immediately before us. They are months profoundly interwoven with the future of both our countries and also interwoven with the peace and progress of the world." Mr Churchill added: "Let us first express.deep gratitude to both of the great parties in America for the manner in which the interests of the alliance and the prosecution of the war have been held high above the dust of party politics. Example to the World "America has set an example to the world od how a democratic institution can be worked with the utmost vigour and freedom without injury to the permanent interests of the State. We know that we in Britain have in the Republican Party in the United States a vast number of friends and well-wishers by whom the upholding of BritishAmerican friendship is cherished." Mr Churchill said he would like to pay a tribute to the sportsmanship and manner in which Governor Dewey at the moment of defeat offered congratulations to President Roosevelt and pledged [its party to work wholeheartedly tor the world cause. It was a model to those States where political differences were not solved by words and "where the question of who shall be in and who shall bo out is settled by life and death." Leaders to Meet Again The result of the election, he said, had vastly improved the prospect for another meeting of the heads of the three major Allied Governments. "When I was here last year," he added, "I could not tell you that I was about to start for a meeting of the three great Allies—the heads of the three Governments—at Teheran. There it was that plans were made and decisions taken which were executed with so much precision and with the degree of combination to which Marshal Stalin referred in his wise and weighty speech a few days ago. Now I do not mind saying it is high time that we had another triple conference, and such a meeting may easily abridge the sufferings of mankind and stop the fearful process of destruction which is now ravishing the earth. "The prospects of such a meeting have been vastly improved by the results of the Presidential elections in the United States for which we waited so breathlessly on Tuesday," Mr Churchill added. "When I was here last year I appealed both to the British and American publics to be very careful that election year did not in any way ruffle the goodwill which exists throughout the English-speaking world and which is so great an aid to our armies. No Controversies Aroused "It is certainly remarkable that the whole of this tremendous turmoil of the United States elections should have been carried through without any stirring of the ancient, moth-eaten, threadbare controversies which are to be found in history books, between Britain and our American kinsmen, now our brothers in arms. We were ourselves very careful to avoid mixing ourselves up in American political affairs, and I offer my thanks to Parliament, the press and public, men of all parties and no parties, for the care and restraint which have madeaH potential indiscretions die upon their lips." Mr Churchill referred to the coming general election in Britain in 1945. He said he was confident that it would be conducted by all concerned with a liveliness and robust vigour which would gratify political emotions and not destroy that marvellous underlying unity and sense of brotherhood which had long existed in this country and which reached its highest degree amidst the perils from which we had been delivered and in a Government made up by men of all parties. WORK FOR ALL STATE RESPONSIBILITY BEVERIDGE PLAN SUMMARY (Special Corrcsponent) LONDON. Nov. 0 "Full employment in a free society," is the title of Sir William Beveridge's second post-war plan. Published today, it is a sequel to his White Paper on social security, but it is not an official document The central theme of the plan is that in future it must be the duty of the State to ensure that there is a job for everybody. To do this the State must see that the nation's "total outlay"— all the money productively spent both by the Government and citizens—is enough to create a demand for the services of all the available workers. This is a summary of the plan:— (1) Abolition of want by social security and children's allowances, increasing and stabilising consumption. (2) Collective outlay to secure good houses, good food, fuel and other necessaries at stable prices for all, and a national health service without charges for treatment. (3) Encouragement and regulationof private investment by a national investment board to rejuvenate and expand the mechanical equipment of the country while stabilising the process of doing so, (4) Extension of the- public section of industry so as to -increase the scope of the direct stabilisation of investment and bring monopolies under publio control. (5) A national budget based on the datum of manpower and designed to ensure year by year a total outlay sufficient to set up a demand for the whole productive resources of the country. | (6) Control of the location of industry with full powers, including transport on a national plan. . (7) Organised mobility of labour to prevent aimless movement, hawking of labour and misdirection of juveniles while facilitating movement when it is desirable. (8) Controlled marketing of primary products produced in countries overseas so as to stabilise their demand to the utmost. (9) International trading arrangements based on the acceptance of the three fundamental conditions of multilateral trade—full employment, balancing of international accounts and stability of economic policy. MR CURTIN'S HEALTH (Reed. 7.30 p.m.) CANBERRA. Nov. 10 Ths Prime Minister of Australia, Mr J. Chirtin, may not be able to resume work until some time in January. His heart has been strained as a result of the heavy and continued burden of official duties. This report from the Prime Minister's doctor was released today by the deputy-Prime Minister, Mr F. M. Forde. It added that Mr Curtin's condition had improved since he entered hospital.