NO CONNEXION WITH FASCISM.
NEW ZEALAND LEGION. "There is nothing of that nature about the New Zealand Legion at all," said Mr John Mac Gibbon, chairman of the Canterbury provincial executive of the legion, when his attention was drawn yesterday to a report from London that a federation of Empire Fascists had been formed, including Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union, Colonel Eric Campbell's New Guard in Australia, and "similar bodies" in South Africa, New Zealand, and Canada. Mr Mac Gibbon said he knew of no movement of that kind in New Zealand. The report could not refer to the New Zealand Legion, for that was not a Fascist organisation but simply a movement which sought to get the people together so that they could work their way out of their present troubles. There was nothing military or "Nazi" about it. Mr Mac Gibbon recalled that Dr. Campbell Begg, the leader of the legion, had denied in answer to a question that it was in any way comparable with the New Guard.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20906, 13 July 1933, Page 15
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