R.S.L. head a ‘bully’
NZPA-Reuter Sydney A bitter row has erupted among veterans’ organisation leaders over the plans to build a retirement village for Japanese in Australia. The national president of the Returned Servicemen’s League, William Keys, hit out at the president of the Victorian branch, Bruce Ruxton, who has attacked the proposed village for 5000 Japanese pensioners as an “Asian dumping ground.” Mr Keys, in a radio interview yesterday, described Mr Ruxton as a bully and extremist and said he had gone “much too far and was way beyond official R.S.L. policy.” The R.S.L.’s Queensland president, Sir Albert Abbott, said he had received no complaints from members. “The war has been over for 41 years now and the idea doesn’t greatly concern me,” he said.
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