Communists Strongly Denounced By General Sir Howard Kilppenberger

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 14978, 17 May 1949, Page 3

Communists Strongly Denounced By General Sir Howard Kilppenberger

S mR COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE f> STRESSED IN TAURANGA

nists whom he described as rogues, dupes and !/ Conlll eit hßr potential or intended were strongly debitors 7- H CW ard Kippenberger, Dominion President of # lliced Tpaland Returned Services Association, both at a retie eW . Tnnranfi’a in his honour yesterday afternoon and at ceP tion 1 reunion of the Western Bay of Plenty Returned tb* all f Association last evening.

1 stated that the quesr ® w tf t hcr professed Corn'd f h .fKc permitted memRS.A. had been hip ot nL thc latter stages ot 1(1 toVVa ion conference twelve ■ P oin,nlo T l h is imporatant issue d IS tr discussion at a time e f ,/ftes were preparing to rt d ele | ifke himself, a number It, f d ’ v o the question more tel l°f£p arriving at a decision, n of freedom of speech l ?ueS f thought and justice to all g aS; uppermost in their is fLelve'months, however. it quite clear that these were not en-le-C S consideration. They 1 t0 i interested in the welfare ! n0 trv added Sir Howard. f to ol { their orders from Mosvtc were not entitled to »®“[!i s rs S of an honourable and he hoped that next " lsa Sd see them excluded til ffo S e um H was not a ;;;o{ a witch hunt, but one ““rSSfet slated Sir How--1? 0 d hi” l that they . wo , u tl KhiNew Zealand in t ‘ time. “But,” he emS "we won’t let them do 51 tmSsts were the poteninitors they said they were. 0 association, continued the L considered ttiat the armed nf New Zealand should be !S n nroper and sensible basis, after year it had advocated iation of compulsory mi 1service and it was still the Son’s policy, quite apart from SSt international outlook. armed forces of the Dominion Ler had proper support and it £h‘time they were put on a ie basis. The R.S.A believed ' system of compulsory serias the only one. Every rcprl servicemen’s association was vourof it and Sir Howard exJ the hope that this _ year Id see the reintroduction of comm military service 14d, added the speaker served w both systems and all those had were of the same mind tec was only one system. It to be hoped that never again I'd as had' happened in the past /the voluntary system, the try lose hundreds of thousands [s best men —at Gallipoli in Id War I and Greece and Crete ie last conflict, • 1 those who opposed compulmilitary service, Sir Howard he would ask them to look nc l and see who were their

friends. First there were the Communists —rogues, dupes and traitors, either potential or intended—all cowards, and those who were too selfish to give service to the country to which they belonged. “Then,” he concluded, “see if you care to remain in their company.”