THE WAR SITUATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24861, 10 March 1942, Page 6

THE WAR SITUATION

TO THE EDITOR Sir,—lt is to be hoped that your recent leader on the present situation will receive the attention that it deserves. At this moment of peril the country is in the hands of a group of opinionated incompetents, whose one object is to cling to office at all costs, regardless of consequences.: To take only one instance. We have in the country a former Minister of Finance whose ability and integrity are such that the mere fact of his holding office would cend up the war contribution by leaps and bounds, but he is left in the wilderness while the Government sciuanders money on appeals which can hardly pay for their cost, and people ask each other, "By the way, who is the present Minister of Finance?" The Premier appeals to the people to work as they have never worked before, and at-the same time the Saturday morning loafers continue to throng the streets. Is this the way to win the war, or to win anything?; Decent feeling may be so drugged by the dope of Social Security that it can scarcely make itself felt, but that it still exists-is. proved by the following remark, overhead quite recently: "They ought to make us work, and if its got to be a seven-day week, well, its got to be." . .•«;-•■•■-. ■-■ If the present Administration is incapable of making use of this attitude towards the present peril, let it make way for those who can. "For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for the battle?" —I am, etc., Errian. March 8.