WELLINGTON TOPICS

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 167, 17 July 1920, Page 4

WELLINGTON TOPICS

THE- DEFENCE POLICY.

STILL INCUBATING.

(Special Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, July 16. Some months before his departure for London Sir James Allen was credited with being busy on the preparation of a new policy for his successor at th& Defence Office, but fo far no trace of the promised heritage has been discovered. People who concern themselves about such matters are beginning to suspect that Sir James', finding it too great an undertaking lor his own crowded hours, handed the task over to the Special Committee of Officers, of which whispers are heard occasionally, and that the members of this body are puzzling their heads to devise a scheme tlwt will strike the? happy mean between the big battalions they love and the little ones '.the public demand. Sir Heaton .Rhodes's appointment is a good .'luxury for a sane solution of the problem. The new Minister want* security without extravagance and a sojihd system of training without militarism. The country wonts thosame things.