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"IN DANGER OF OBLIVION" EX-SOLDIERS AND POLITICS [by telegbaph OWN correspondent] DUNEDIN, Tuesday Some discussion took place at the annual meeting of the Dunedin Returned Soldiers' Association last night on the question whether members should publicly associate themselves with politics. One speaker voiced strong criticism of the practice, and mentioned the name of Mr, H. L Paterson, the incoming president, who had been chairman of the local organisation of the Democrat Party and had also contested a seat on the City Council. Replying at a later stage to the discussion, Mr. Paterson said there was a danger that the generation belonging to the 1910-1920 decade was to be' forgotten, and he appealed to the members of the association to stand up for themselves. " Sixty per cent of the population of New Zealand to-day does not remember the war,'" Mr. Paterson said, " and if the returned soldiers of the country do not take their place in its civic life they will have only themselves to blame if they drop out of sight altogether."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22400, 22 April 1936, Page 14
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