POLITICS AND WAR

Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22553, 10 April 1943, Page 6

POLITICS AND WAR

No Single Party Can Win MELBOURNE, April 8. “No single party can win this war,” declared the Leader of the Federal Opposition (Mr A. W. Fadden), who said that unless Labour was defeated at the forthcoming elections it would have a mandate from the people to proceed with its policy of socialisation. This would mean the ultimate destruction of the economic structure of the nation and would have disastrous effects on post-war planning. “The next elections will be the most momentous in Australia’s history." added Mr Fadden. From the viewpoint of our future economic stability and our ability to wage 100 per cent war in association with our Allies and to place the national foundations on a sound post-war footing there are dangerous men in the present Labour Ministry. No matter how frequently it is denied, there is the strongest evidence that Labour is using the war to implement the planks of Labour policy which can have no place in a nation at war. The Government has no mandate for socialisation, but at the coming elections the people will be invited to accept it as a basis for postwar reconstruction. Private enterprise must be defended as an essential condition of material progress. It must not be suppressed and it must be freed from the doctrinaire of socialistic restriction and regulation."