THE LEGION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 113, 16 May 1933, Page 6

THE LEGION.

If the New Zealand Legion can include all the New Zealand unions, all local bodies and all the societies and associations, into which our absurdly small population ie at present divided, much good may corn", of it. Most associations are in favour of something as opposed to something else, and there is already a suspicion that the legion is sectional, if not one of class. The common aim of the whole population ie, I assume, prosperity and individual happiness and relief from financial anxiety. Strikes are organised as a form of pressure on a group, or the whole community) and with the whole community banded together for the common good these bitter little quarrels would be quite, unnecessary. If we arc to have a txxly of green shirts, or silver ferns, badged or uniformed, the entrance should be open to everybody willing to accept the voice of the people as a final decision W all questions. I have read the. presidents manifesto, and it leads me to believe that the entrance to the legion should be limited to bona-fide New Zealanders, or those who canic to this country in early youth and have absorbed New Zealand ways of thought, which those who arrive after twenty-five or thirty years in another country never do. WATCHMAN.