“NOT MILITARISM”
Birr COMMON SENSE. “Probably no man In Australia is held In more regard. He participated In the Great War from beginning to end,” said Lord Mayor (Aid. Stokes), at a civic farwell in Sydney, to MajorGeneral Brand, who is leaving for to become second-in-com-mand of Australia's army. “What New South Wales will lose Victoria will gain,’’ the Lord Mayor w’ent on. “Australia has no better friend anywhere than General Brand,” said Mr. Cann (Minister for Health and Local Government), who represented the State Ministry. "He has a friend in every member of the New South Wales Ministry.” Captain Massey (H.M.A.S. Adelaide) thanked the Lord Mayor for enabling
the navy to be associated with the farewell to General Brand.
"It has been my object," said General Brand, in responding, “to bring the citizens in closer touch with Australia’s future defence, and I think I' have had some measure of success. No citizen army—that that Is the only army Australia has apart from a handful of permanent man—can be efficient if the citizens are apathetic. No General, no matter how high his rank, can gain and maintain the esteem and respect of the Australian youth if he adopts a high-handed or stand-off attitude. The Australian youth requires altogether different handling from the young fellow of other lands. His temperament and his environment are altogether different. and I can say that the Australian youth is Just as keen on getting into the front line of Australia’s defence as* ever he was.” "There is no militarism in a desire to preserve intact the high standard of living which obtains in this young country. It is not militarism, but common: sense, n a young country, which has set up certain high ideals. "The old I.F.A. uniform which the lads were proud to wear, is a leavener of all classes and creeds." Major-General Brand, in concluding said that his new duties would necessitate his travelling all over Australia, and he hoped from time to time to renew his acquaintance with his Sydney friends.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3256, 28 January 1926, Page 15
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