TREATMENT OF DISABLED SOLDIERS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 32, 8 February 1943, Page 2

TREATMENT OF DISABLED SOLDIERS

Ever since King Charlie's time this has been the trouble; promises never kept, but promises to other nations we- keep whatever the cost— human beings are only so much gunfodder. Nell Gwynne called King Charlie's attention to the plight of his old soldiers, and he presented the palace and grounds now known as Royal Chelsea Hospital, for a home for old pensioners. The pension up to the last war was about 1/ a day. Ex-soldiers from campaigns years ago never were considered; no one would employ them. The only way the returned men and women may be able to get justice is to form a political organisation of their own. After the war there will be a majority of ex-service men and women over all others, and now is the time to start such an organisation. The men and women that served should be the ones to rule, not favoured members of political bodies. What is the good of complaining to the Government, "Your case will receive every consideration, they say," and no more is said. W. MALTBY.