MR. LANG RE-APPEARS.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 February 1933, Page 6

MR. LANG RE-APPEARS.

Were conditions in Australia less serious there would be humour in the reappearance of Mr. J. T. Lang as the leader of the party pledged to “control the credit of Australia. As Premier of New South Wales Mr. Lang had the opportunity of displaying his skill as a. financier. He succeeded in reducing the credit of th? State to such a parlous condition that the State Savings Bank had to close its doors, capital was withdrawn on every hand, taxation increased, unemployment was worse than ever, and State default in payment of oversea mterest occurred on more than one occasion. It is a politician with such a record who is hailed by the “Country Labour Party in New South Wales as* fitted for the position of Prime Minister of the Commonwealth. As a matter of fact the Country Labour Party is only a section of the ‘‘Lang division” of the Australian labour movement. The Langites represent the Communists, Republicans and all the other curious political coteries who find in the teachings of Moscow the way to a new heaven upon earth. There are no sterner critics of this “Lang wing than the responsible Labour leaders in the Commonwealth, and they are unlikely to be swayed by the noise or the appeals of Mr. Lang and his followers in support of the “socialisation of credit” as an-election battle cry. As the Minister representing the Commonwealth in London, Mr. S. M. Bruce, remarked last week. Australia knows now that she got rid of a Socialistic Government just in time to avoid disaster. The Commonwealth is still paying dearly for its flirtation with Soviet aims and theories, and is scarcely likely to desire another.