J FORCE
Sir,—The Returned Services’ Association decision to debar membership to J Force should be reconsidered on the grounds that a state of war still exists with Japan, and J Force is therefore garrisoning an enemy country; that in the event of Japan rejecting our peace terms fighting may continue, if only underground. What the Japanese did to Pearl Harbour they may even now be planning to do to the Army of Occupation. In view of these facts, surely we Diggers should support these sons of ours in their just claim for membership, not belittle them. —Yours, etc., 1914-39.
July 22. 1947. [The annual conference of all Returned Services’ Associations in New Zealand had almost unanimously decided to bar members of J Force from admission to the association, and individual associations had to abide by the decision, said Mr H. E. Batchelor, vice-president of the Christchurch Returned Services’’ Association, when this letter was referred to him. Any association could, at the next conference. introduce a remit suggesting that J Force members should be admitted.]
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25244, 24 July 1947, Page 5
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