GREATEST NEED TODAY IS FRIENDLINESS, SAYS ACTING PRIME MINISTER

Wanganui Chronicle, 20 April 1949, Page 4

GREATEST NEED TODAY IS FRIENDLINESS, SAYS ACTING PRIME MINISTER

NEW PLYMOUTH, Last Night <PA) —"There is nothing we want more today than friendliness, not only among ourselves but among the peoples of the world,” declared the acting Prime Minister, Mr Nash, at New Plymouth today, when speaking to a conference of Manchester Unity of Odd ellows. Adopting one of the society's aims, lie said there never was a time when there was a greater need to hold out the hand of friendship to all peoples with the object of finding some way of fitting together .various expressions of common aim to avoid wars. They could avoid the menace qf ideologies but it would be wrong to disregard their effect, said Mr. Nash. Peoples of the world were so close tO' gether today that some way of cooperation must be found. This was one of the most difficult decades the world had known, with its promises of great success and potentialities for great disaster, but it was encouraging to realise that in spite of all fhe varying views and disputes there were sections of the peoples of the world who were linking themselves with the object of avoiding in future what the world had gone through so often in the past. “We should remember that more than half the people of the world never have enough to eat.” Mr. Nash emphasised. So he asked everyone to take a wider vision in order that all neop'es might eventually have enough to eat. enough clothes to wear and decent living conditions. New Zealanders should not imagine that they could keep all the good things to their own homes for others had a vision of the full life to which all were entitled.