AN ELECTION PLEDGE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 September 1943, Page 3

AN ELECTION PLEDGE

(To the Editor.) Sir, —If is a well known principle that when a person has nothing to fear from the truth he is well advised io take the earliest possible opportunity of giving a full, detailed statement of any disputed occurrence. I see Messrs Heckler and Horne have followed this course. On the other hand, when the truth may be awkward the course usually adopted is to enter a denial, refuse to give further evidence, reserve the defence and plead for an adjournment. I see the “Rescue Party” have adopted these tactics to the letter. They are still denying and vaguely claiming that Mr Robertson’s pledge was about “a different matter altogether,” but give no hint at all as to what that different matter was. Possibly they are well advised to delay although in the meantime the public is drawing its own conclusions, because it might be still more embarrassing when Monday night comes to find them sticking to one story and their hero perhaps getting independent and sticking to another. No doubt they will give us the full “facts” after they have heard Mr Robertson’s version and tell us that the only reason they took sc long about it was because they were so shy.—We are, etc., QUEEN STREET. Masterton, September 16.