IN EVENT OF WAR
NATIONAL SECURITY
ORGANISED COMMUNITY ,
(By Telegrapli-tPress Association.)
"DUNEDIN, This Day.
The importance" of the community being organised in the event of war, particularly if an attacking force landed in New Zealand, was emphasised by Dr. C. M. Greenslade when speaking at a meeting of the recently-formed Territorial Association yesterday.
"I think it is useless just giving guns to boys to play at soldiers," Dr. Greenslade said ■ when referring to the present Territorial system.: "This association should set out to interest' the whole of the community in the defence of the country, because it is necessary that everyone should be organised for defensive purposes. The Government appears to be intent on providing social security, but we want national security; and.until we get that everything else is of secondary importance.
, "When the Army of Occupation entered Germany at the end of the war we found the civilian population absolutely organised, and there were few difficulties in the administration of the occupied areas. Any part of New Zealand that was attacked would have to submit peacefully, and how much better it would be to submit as an organised community than §5 a disorganised rabble.",
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 80, 5 April 1938, Page 10
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195IN EVENT OF WAR Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 80, 5 April 1938, Page 10
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