MINISTER MYSTIFIED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 42, 20 February 1943, Page 5

MINISTER MYSTIFIED

SOME OF OBJECTIONS (Recd. 6 p.m.) London, Feb. 18. Following the division on the Labour amendment in the House of Commons, a Government motion welcoming the report was carried without a division. In his speech in the House Mr. Morrison said that if the amendment was carried it would obviously raiseconstitutional and Parliamentary issues of a serious order. “I am mystified at the belief expressed in some quarters,” he said, “that the Government is trying to evade The issue. Sir William Beveridge himself contemplated that the plan would not operate until after the war. Opposition or semi-detached parlies have too often made wild nromises and then failed to carry them out when they attained to power. I won't be a party to any such political jiggery-pokery. ’ Sir William Beveridge himself thought the plan should be taken in s:ages. I think the Government will be thanked*for refusing to make reckless promises. We don't want a repetition of what happened in the last war—soldiers coming back and being promised a paradise and not getting it. ’