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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19025, 27 May 1936, Page 4

Republican politicians in the United States were saying that Franklin Roosevelt and tho New Deal were like Christopher in his search for the royal road to Cathay, said the eminent Canadian ecclesiastic, Dr. David Lang, during a lecture in Wellington. Columbus was not sure whether or not lie had discovered the East Indies, as he had first imagined. Mr. Roosevelt, it was said, was like Columbus because lie was not quife sure where he was going with his venture, tho New Deal; he was not sure where he was when he stopped going further, and he did not know where he had been when he got back. Although unwilling to forecast the result of the Presidential election this year, Dr. Lang said} that it would lie one of the most bitter contests that America had seen for very many years. There seemed to be only one question in the whole election, “Are you for Roosevolt or against him?”