ALIEN WAYS

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24600, 23 June 1945, Page 6

ALIEN WAYS

(By WHIM WHAM) "That any person or persons who arrived In New Zealand from Germany, Austria, Hungary, or Italy since 1939 must return to their own countries within two years after hostilities cease with Germany, and that they be allowed to take out of New Zealand the same amount of money or property, or both, that they declared to the Customs Department when entering New Zealand, any further money or property that they may possess to be sold and the proceeds to be handed to the New Zealand Government for distribution among the wives and dependants of those who fought for their respective countries while they enjoyed peace and plenty in New Zealand."—Part of resolution carried at the Dominion conference of the Returned Services’ Association. Let’s put (the Alien in his Place. Let’s shtjjv him Who’s the Master Race. Hitler, alas, is dead and gone: But (Heil!) his Soul goes marching on. He wrecked their Homes, He bade them pack, He chased them here.—Let’s chase them back! On with the Dance! It’s None too soon: They know the Steps, They know the Tune! An Alien’s Skill or Industry May earn his Keep? Don't talk to me! Each Case he treats, each Lathe he turns, It is MY Money that he earns, Exhausting by his useless Toil Our over -populated Soil. The Air he breathes is so much less For Me and Mine, and his Success (Disgusting Thought!) is barefaced Theft. , . Lord knows, New Zealand isn t left Much Butter for the meagre Bread That keeps its Teeming Millions fed! The Answer’s plain, the Logic’s clear: Reduce the Population here. The More we send or drive away, The More there’ll be for Those who stay. Let’s start at once, at the Expense Of Those who have the least Defence (‘‘Mein Kampf” tells how); and after Them It will be easier to condemn Some other Section of this Reich Whose Race or Face we do not like And have Them summarily evicted, Until New Zealand is restricted To Those self-guaranteed as fit To govern and inhabit It. (Though to this End, so Much desired, Expulsions may not be required] And we may build the Perfect Nation By voluntary Evacuation). Dear Spokesmen of the R.S.A., Will not your Members feel Dismay To hear you ignorantly shame .. The Cause they fought for, in their Name? Were Those who died no more concerned , , _ Than You, who speak for Those returned. „ With righting Others’ Wrongs? Did They, The Unreturned, not choose that Way Not for their Own, with Hearts more no Aliens in their State?