CLASS WARFARE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 287, 3 December 1929, Page 6

CLASS WARFARE

INGE is the greatest contributor to the class war in the country,” is the amazing declaration of Mr A. J. Cook, the Labour Leader. This is self-abnegation with a will for Mr Cook himself has claims in that direction. It is doubtful though whether Mr Cook would be sb angry with Dean Inge on account of his contribution to the class war were it not for one fact. The fact which angers Mr Cook is that Dean Inge is on the other side. How wrong of that brilliant scholar and writer to point out the weaknesses in the cpse of Mr Cook, for that is evidently what the venerable writer has been doing. Mr Cook’s idea of class warfare is evidently a one-sided affair. The idea of having a foeman worthy of his steel doesn’t appeal to the champion of the proletariat with Moscow leanings. The trouble evidently is that Mr Cook has found himself incapable of dealing with the Dean of St. Paul’s, and the Prophet of Staines will not add to the cloistral gloom of Wren’s masterpiece by declaring of Dean Inge: “He is on the right road to his end.’’ Dean Inge would, in all probability express the hope that Mr Cook was right and add as a riposte that he has all along beqn trying to tell Mr Cook that he was on the wrong road.