WREATH-LAYING CONTROVERSY
Mr Kishi’s Plan Supported (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 7 p.m.L CANBERRA. December 2. The national president of the Returned Servicemen’s League of Australia. Sir George Holland, has welcomed the laying of a wreath by the Japanese Prime Minister. Mr Kishi. on the Australian National War Memorial in Canberra. Sir George Holland declined to support the protest of the Eighth Division council’s president. Dr. W. E. Fisher, which he said was •‘against national and R.S.L. policy.” Mr Kishi will lay a wreath on December 3 on his return from New Zealand. Apart from national and international considerations the first duties of an overseas dignitary visiting Australia should include laying a wreath at a war memorial as a mark of respect to the country’s war dead.” he said. “So far from protesting against any such action, we would consider an omission of a wreathlaying ceremony discourteous in the extreme and a virtual insult to our war dead.”
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28450, 3 December 1957, Page 24
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