Future Attitude

Most New Zealanders welcome the forthright statement of the Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. P. Fraser, on his return from San Francisco. He said: "If in this country, or in any other country a spirit of animosity and hatred against any race raised its head, that would be a triumph of Nazism or Fascism, though they have been stamped out in Germany. I say that, because it is easy to stir the feelings which ended in cruelties and concentration camps in Germany. I speak that as a word of warning." We can congratulate the Prime Minister for his humanitarian outlook. He has well expressed the spirit of the United Nations Charter. . . . "The peoples of the United Nations pledge themselves . . . to re-affirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person,; in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small . . . and to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom . . . and for these ends to practise tolerance in peace with one another as good neighbours...."

The Prime Minister has shown that if Hitler is dead, we will not stand by in New Zealand and watch his soul go marching on. Gaudeamus Igitur.