PERSONAL

Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22203, 21 February 1942, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr R. F. Waddell, exchange clerk, Post and Telegraph Department, Timaru, has been transferred to a similar position at Greymouth. Advice has been received that Major W. G. Tweedy has arrived safely in the Middle East, and has commenced duty as New Zealand Red Cross Commissioner. Mr A. D. Charge, manager of ths New Zealand Insurance Company, Wanganui, will leave shortly on promotion for Newcastle, New South Wales. Mr J. W. Elliott, who for 36 years has been associated with local bodies in Waipukurau, will retire on superannuation at the end of April. Mr Elliott has been clerk of the Patangata County Council since 1908. Rev. Dr. Harrison, who has been assistant parish priest at Hokitika for several years, will leave on March 1, on transfer to Christchurch. He will be replaced at Hokitika by Rev. Father G. O’Meeghan. Mr A. W. B. Powell has been appointed acting director of the Auckland War Memorial Museum, and acting secretary of the Institute and Museum Council. He replaces Lieu-tenant-Colonel G. Archey, 0.8. E., who is now serving with the forces. The senior inspector of schools at Auckland, Mr A. Bain, is retiring after 42 years devoted to the service of education. Tributes were paid to him at the last meeting of the Auckland Education Board. He was a teacher for 21 years, staff inspector in Otago for 10 years, acting senior inspector for two years, senior inspector in Taranaki for two years, and senior in Auckland for seven years.

The international policy of the Socialists at that time was fairly simple. “We would start out,” said Sir Stafford, “with the ultimate objective of an economic union of all countries, and, naturally, we would be drawn first to those States eager to implement a general Socialist policy. You can say that the immediate objective would be international economic cooperation, which is really much more important than disarmament. All the great coalitions and splits of the past have been caused by economic forces. Until the nations are organised on a Socialist basis it will be impossible to get rid of those things which cause war.” “Disarmament,” he said with final emphasis, “will not remove the menace of war. Strife arises from economic causes. People will always manage to get the guns if they want them. If antagonistic factions within one nation will assail each other with guns for economic, reasons, it is obvious that those of different countries must do so under the Capitalist system.” All that has happened since 1934 has proved consistency in the political

character of Sir Stafford Cripps. New tasks now may postpone progress towards his basic political objectives, but when the ghastly interlude of war ends there can be no doubt about the road he would like to travel, and will