NEW YORK COMMENT

Wanganui Chronicle, 13 December 1949, Page 5

NEW YORK COMMENT

NEW YORK, Dec. 11 (Recd. 8 ptn). - The “New York Times," in an editorij], says the decisive victory for the ‘ Conservatives" in the Australian elecwas an event of major world imr.oi tance, coming immediately after a similar defeat for Labourites in New Zealand. "The two together give impressive and heartening evidence that democratic peoples fear excessive controls;’ says the paper. “The Times” ouotes Mr. Menzies as believing firmly in social services, but as insisting "society needs the driving forces of full individuality and a reward for courage and enterprise.” It adds: "This, roughly, is an aim toward which most democratic States seem to be reaching in recent decades. The problem is to find a maximum of security social and justice, with a maximum of freedom. That is a delicate and difficult task, one that will only be accomplished over a long period by a series of trials and errors » in many countries " •A “The'Times” said a lesson to be drawn from the Australian and New Zealand elections was that many people disliked controls and “Statism” of ■':r: Welfare State. At the same time : ey liked the benefits they derived om the system. *lt would also seem 'ear from the Australian and New . rind results that many voters cen- :. d their respective Governments going beyond the provision and lagement of a welfare State into : rols over industrv and daily life t he people that were not necessary to the functioning of a welfare State.