NEW GUARD'S AIMS.
SPEECH BY THE LEADER. "RfeADY TO PREVENT CHAOS."
At a meeting- of members of the New Guard at Windsor, Sydnev, recently, Mr. E. Campbell, leader of tlie organisation, said that there were 100,000 men in New South Wales organised in military fashion. They were not ah aggressive body, but were merely ready to prevent the chaos into'which the State w-as likely to fall at'an early date.. Representatives of the Church were prominent at the meeting, at which 800 prospective members were present. The Rev. N. Jenkyn, Mayor of Windsor and rector of St. Matthew's Church, was chairman, and al&o on the platform was the.. Rev; R. C. Lawton, a Presbyterian minister.
Mr.' Carispbell, in an address on the objects and activities of the body, said that Communism-was a very real-danger, and, although the population of Russia numbered many millions, its Soviet, form of government was engineered by 200 Communists. "It could quite easily be done in Australia," lie said, " by the small band now representing Sovielism in Sydney." A challenge was made to Mr. Campbell by a-'member of the audience concerning a statement that he had made recently—!' if there be any loyal citizens outside the' New Guard." Mr. Campbell said...that he did not insinuate that everyone who was not a member of the organisation was disloyal, but such people were not 100 per cent, loyal. " Loyalty to the State cannot be accomplished by passiveness," he said, " but by activity. " Passive loyalty has got us into the mr\s we aro in to-day." "Whenever it is possible, and when shopkeepers are known to be members of the New Guard, carefully disguised Red propaganda is directed toward a boycott of. (heir shops. A butcher who announced openlv his allegiance to the New Guard was fust threatened by a group of Reds, and then found that his trade was falling off. Eventually this boycott became so intense that he had to leave his premises and open a shop in anolhei Mibiub-under another name.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21115, 24 February 1932, Page 12
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333NEW GUARD'S AIMS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21115, 24 February 1932, Page 12
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