GREAT PARTNERSHIP

New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25211, 25 May 1945, Page 7

GREAT PARTNERSHIP

COALITION GOVERNMENT ACHIEVEMENTS PRAISED (Heed 6.30 D.m.) LONDON, May 24 The main editorial articles in the London newspapers all praise the achievements of the 'late Coalition Government and all agree that the difference between the parties does not lie so much in their aims as in their method of achievement. "The National Government has been a great administration," says the Times editorially. "Its strength at a time when, without a strong Government, the nation might have perished has derived from a virtue not always found in coalitions —that it has really coalesced. "Its members have worked together in harmonious co-operation and mutual loyalty to a degree which has never been surpassed and seldom approached in the history of any of the coalition Governments' that have held office in England. The Labour Ministers who withdraw have heightened their reputation by their service to the coalition." The article refers to the constructive work mapped out for many years ahead and says that whether the Conservatives or Labour or a new combination of parties be called to office in the new Parliament they can do no other than carry on the great work of what has been truly a National Government. The Daily Mail says: "Mr Churchill's resignation ends a coalition Government which will always be known as one of the greatest and most remarkable Ministries in our annals. These five years have been a time of deadly peril, but also of mighty achievement. It would be ungenerous to deny tribute to the Labour and Liberal Ministers for the part they have played. They will be missed, for thev have done their work well and it is a pity they have not been willing to continue in office until the unconditional surrender of Japan. "All the main parties are in fundamental agreement on most of the great issues of the day. Proposals for re-' building Britain and introducing social reforms have actually been worked out by the coalition Government The difference lies not in the aims but in the method of achieving them. When Socialist leaders say, 'We cannot erect a new world upon rotten economic foundations' thev forget that our victories in the war effort were built upon a mag nificent partnership between free enterprise and he State." The Daily Herald thinks a Labour Government would lie better fitted than a Conservative one to deal with international relations, particularly with Russia. COMMUNISTS' PLANS (RmJ 830 p.m.) LONDON, May 21 The Communist Party, apart from constituencies where it is running its own candidates, will fully support all Labour Party candidates, said Mr Harry Pollitt, general secretary of the Communist Party, MORE U-BOATS ARRIVE Nfi'd 'l.lO urn) LONDON, May 21 Two more German U-boats have arrived at l/ondonderry, in Northern ireland, making 25 there. Four more are due shortly.