RESPONSIBILITIES IN PACIFIC

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 14916, 2 March 1949, Page 3

RESPONSIBILITIES IN PACIFIC

NZ NOT FAOT.NO UP TO OBLIGATIONS CRITTCTSM nv WAIKATO R.S.A. MEMBERS (P.A.) Hamilton, March 1. Gonoern at the failure of the Prime Minister to give the country a definite lead in its defence reauirements on his return from overseas was expressed hv the executive of the Waikato R S.A. last night. Sever'd members expressed dissatisfaction with Mr Fraser’s re ported remarks tlrA voluntary enlistment into the Territorial Army be tried out if thought necessary and if this did not meet recmiroments, some of compulsion would have to he applied. if was stated that at a time when everyone was anxiously washing America’s attitude to the Atlantic Pact, and hoping she would maintam ’ th° military aid opuses, and ’vhen Britain was fighting the Paoifi- countries’ battles in Malaya ~nd pVotvhere. it "'v expected that New would face up to bor responsibilities in ensuring world name. , . It was agreed that the onlv lair me°ns of distributing the burden o x> mutual defence was some form of unu ro rsal mihtarw training, and a resolution offering the Dominion pv°f« u tjve all possible support in any action it might take to ensure the country, was carried unanimously.