HOME GUARD TRANSPORT
Sir,—What a reflection upon our methods of waging total war, that your vigorous sub-leader should be necessary. Recently a Gazette notice proclaimed that the designation “Army and Home Guard" was to cease. The Home Guard was an integral part of the Army. With a powerful enemy a few days’ steam from our shores, the Army has to enlist the aid of the newspapers, to plead for transport. An army, to be effective, must have morale, which is largely a matter of possessing a superiority complex. I defy any body of troops to acquire a superiority complex when subjected to public humiliation. Arrangements must and will be made to overcome this impasse, but why let matters reach this state?— Yours, etc., SOLOMON ISLAND. ’ August 12. 1942.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23715, 13 August 1942, Page 6
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