VIEWS OF FORMER SERVICEMEN

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25447, 19 March 1948, Page 8

VIEWS OF FORMER SERVICEMEN

“CURBING OF DISLOYAL

ELEMENTS”

SUPPORT FOR ANY MOVE AGAINST COMMUNISTS

( P.A ) WELLINGTON, March 18. The association feels that unless ways and means can be found to curb the activities of disloyal elements, the country is heading for a national crisis, reads an official statement issued by the New Zealand Returned [services Association, announcing the adoption by the Dominion executive J*® resolution, "that the New Zea„Heturned Services’ Association, the New Zealand Air Force Association, and the New,Zealand Home Servicemens Association wholeheartedly support any move within the Dorninion to preserve the democratic way of life for the maintenance of which our members served, but which is threatthe *. tr ® l ? d of events in Europe r-nd the activities of Sommunists in our own country.” ;. T£ e statement continues: ‘"Ae activities of subversive elements in re?!r nt . l ? lo P ths have S* one nothing to alfearst° which the association’s newspaper 'Review’ gave voice a year “ ®?»torially stated in Janu--1947 r™ repeated in December, well edom fought for, as wen as the peace and prosperity we hope for can be irretrievably lost by SL T ac J unat ?BP s 0( mcn who have sacrificed nothing for their country nl'L'v !0 1 OW j their allegiance not to New Zealand and the British Combuf to an alien organisannHti^V ICh B P ushin g its drive for ?J“’ti over vast and widely separated portions of the globe.’ ” statement points out that the first objective of the association as set oonsbtution is that it is an 2^?^ I V£ atlon foyaHy to uphold and defend the constitution of New Zealand we3th , n I ?*? r <.- of the British CommonJL 1 ?"*h of Nations. Consequently anyth«n rJi? • threatens the security of 2*5 J ominion will be strenuously resisted by former servicemen. Support for the resolution by the £'>Si V o? ea K? nd lr . Force Association 51*4 .the New Zealand Home Servicejnen s Association was announced to tne Dominion executive's meeting bv the Dominion president (Mr C 6 Bell), who stated that the three associations would stand resolutely behind the Government in any aetidh deemed necessary to maintain, the accepted democratic form of law and order in th® community.