THE LEGION'S POLICY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 112, 15 May 1933, Page 6

THE LEGION'S POLICY.

Mr. Tozer, in his letter to your paper on the New Zealand Legion, complains that the legion has not come out into the open with any concrete policy or platform. The legion does not propose to produce any ready-mado policy, but it hopes that the people themselves will acknowledge that • hitherto they lave neglected their duty as units of democracy in this country and declare themselves anxious to participate in the direction of its government. The legion offers them the opportunity to be able to act. Individually, under democracy, we are helpless. Collectively, if organised, we can each one of us contribute our quota to our government. It is this organisation that the legion intends to provide, by first enrolling the people who agree that they wish to become active units within the democracy of New Zealand, and, secondly, enabling them to educate themselves and think for themselves aivd frame the policy they are all asking to be put before them ready-made, but making it clear to them that before any such policy can be implemented there is one main'step which must be taken, namely, tto modernisation of the machine which will be required for the purpose —the introduction into New Zealand, by constitutional means only of forms of democratic government, both local and general, best suited to the needs of tho Dominion, and composed of men and women of character and ability, freed from the trammels of sectional pressure and actuated solely bv considerations of national interest. JARVIS.