POOR DEFENCES.
MINISTER’S VIEW. Tho Minister for Education in Tasmania (Mr H. S. Baker) replying to a deputation that asked for the teaching of peace in school books, said that though ho was a member of the League of Nations’ Union, and considered that the League of Nations was an excellent movement, he thought there were in it certain dangers which should be and could be avoided. Nations could not afford to neglect the prime duty of defending their territories. He believed that Australia’s defences were shockingly inadequate, and that that was not in the interests of peace, but of war —that, in fact, the Federal Government was inviting trouble. It was not, in tho true sense, acting in the interest of peace. He could not subscribe to the desire that the military schievement of the Empire should, as far as possible, be put out or sight
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 3, 3 December 1931, Page 12
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