Socialism’S Defeat
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Indian Newspaper
Laments
THE political colorlessness of Pacific Re view, a new weekly journal produced by and for the Indian community of Fiji, had intrigued many people. By its origin, it was expected to be rather fiercely anti-British; but, for most of its young life, it has kept clear of politics.
However, it put on its war-paint with a vengeance on December 3, when com menting on the result of the New Zealand elections.
“New Zealand Puts the Clock Back” was the heading; and the article pro ceeded to lament the defeat of the Labour Government. It said the new Government would be “a reversion to con servation” (conservatism, presumably);
that it would support Imperialism and “unrestricted and uncontrolled private enterprise”; and that it would suppress Communism, After praising the administrative re cord of the Socialists, the article con cluded: “It is a great calamity that a country which made so much progress must again sink into a semi-chaotic and semi-barbaric capitalism.”
One wonders what the Pacific Review had to say when it saw the result of the Australian elections, a week later; and how it will express itself after the electors of Britain have had a chance of dealing with the Attlee Government.
Captain and Mrs. C. H. V. Hodgess, of the Solomon Islands, have been in Sydney for three months on a combined business and pleasure trip. They returned to the BSI by plane on January 7.