THE UNPAID DEBT.
WORKLESS EX-SOLDIERS. PRINCE OF WALES' APPEAL. A. and N.Z. LONDON. Nov. 6. The Prince of Wales at the Mansion House, inaugurated Obligation Week, making an earnest appeal on behalf of unemployed ex-service men. He felt, he said, that he was entitled to speak on their behalf because of his close association with them on active service, while since the armistice he had had several opportunities of seeing and talking with thousands of them in various parts of the Empire. There were 40,000 disabled men and 250,000 fit unemployed. He paid a tribute to the energy of the Dominions in grappling with repatriation and resettlement. Although the numbers with which the Dominions had to deal were smaller, it was up to the Old Country to see that it did not fall behind. It was not charity, but eyeryone's solemn obligation to help his patient, weary comrades.
Mr. Lloyd George wrote that while exservice men were unemployed, a blot remained on the nation's escutcheon.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17622, 8 November 1920, Page 7
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