ENEMY IN KOREA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27569, 11 December 1950, Page 4

ENEMY IN KOREA

“ Not Communistic At Heart ” “ I am quite sure neither the Koreans nor the Chinese fighting in Korea at the present time are Communistic at heart,” said Lieutenant-commissioner R. A. Hoggard, the new territorial commander ior the Salvation Army in New Zealand, when speaking to the Daily Times on Saturday night. In the days of his youth, commissioner Hoggard worked for two years in a Korean business house, when his parents were appointed pioneer Salvation Army officers to that country. “For years the people of Asia hav« lived below the hunger line and will follow only those people who offer them food and clothing. It is up to the democracies, therefore, to giv# those people food to eat, and clothing to cover their bodies,” Commissioner Hoggard said. Commissioner Hoggard said that Russia wanted Socialism without democracy, the United States wanted democracy without Socialism, and Great Britain was trying to blend those two ideas. “The rest of the world is watching her handling of these two ideas with interest,” he said.

Commissioner Hoggard said that he had arrived in New Zealand just a week ago, but already he was much impressed with the friendliness of the people, whom he thought to be thoroughly British. He thought, however, that New Zealanders were not so conservative as were the British, and he likened them to Americans in their approachability. Commissioner Hoggard said that he was charmed with the beauty of the countryside when he had motored to Dunedin from Lyttelton.