PROSPERITY BEAT LABOUR GOVERNMENTS STATES FRENCHMAN
PARIS, Dec 14 (Recd 10.55 pm).— Both the New Zealand and the Australian Governments were “victims o£ the very prosperity they developed in their own countries,’’ the Socialist leader M. Leon Blum said today, writing in the party paper “Populaire.”
He said enriched farmers or employers who wished to enjoy newlyacquired riches in full freedom had revolted against the controls that had been one of the conditions of their enrichment. In New Zealand they wished freely to import American cars. In Australia they wanted to use petrol as much as they liked. M. Blum added: “Both Governments were the victims of their firmness in defence of trade balanced between the sterling and dollar areas and in defence of their currency, in other words, in defence of their two countries and the whole Commonwealth’s prosperity.’’—Reuter.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 15 December 1949, Page 5
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