“MUDDLED OUT”

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 66, Issue 5599, 31 March 1943, Page 4

“MUDDLED OUT”

CONFIDENCE NEEDED “The greatest force in the world is hope. At the end of the last war there was no objective towards which to move. There was just a feeling that we had muddled out of the war, and we should somehow muddle back again to the conditions of 1914. I profoundly hope that this time we shall not think in terms of 1939; that was the last of 10 very bad years, which all began with the crash-on the New York Stock Exchange in 1929, and from that time the whole economic situation got into a worse mess. Now ■as a result of this cataclysm through which We are passing, we have an op-

portunity of starting again. There are two things that have to be kept steadily in mind. First, you must have an objective. You must make up your mind that you not only want to restore prosperity to improve standards of living, to eliminate chronic unemployment, but everything possible is going to be done to bling it about, and you are going to use all the resources of society and of Government creation, all the ingenuity of financiers, economists and industrialists in order to reach the goal. Unless confidence can be created, not in the restoration of the old world, but ultimately in the creation of a better world, there will be great social difficulties.”—Mr Harold Butler, Principal of Nuffield College, Oxford, but at present Minister in Charge of British Information Service in the U.S.A.