PULLING TOGETHER
ATTITUDE OF SECOND N.Z.E.F.
Mr. W. Beattie. president of the 2nd N.Z.E.F. Association, writes as follows:—Allow me to reply to the article in last Saturday's Star on the Ex-Servicemen's Page headed "Time to Merge Forces." I trust that the question asked as to the intention of the 2nd N.Z.E.F. Association (inc.) to get together and pull together with the R.S.A. was wFitten m ignorance of the fact that at all times the 2nd N.Z.E.F. Association had. and always will, pulled together with the R.S.A. in all matters which affect the interests of returned men. That the 2nd N.Z.E.F. Association has been far in advance of the R.S.A. in its demands for justice for the returned men is surely the fault of the 'R.S.A. f The Auckland president of the R.S.A. said that the experience of many years of the R.S.A. had been little more than hitting their heads against a brick wall. In 1914-18 a brick wall was a very formidable obstacle, but to-day, with the advancement in mechanised warfare, It is the brick wall that gets the headache, not the serviceman. If the R.S.A. mechanised its out-of-date forces and followed the lead set by the 2nd N.Z.E.F. Association it would at last arrive somewhere.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 37, 13 February 1943, Page 8
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