DEFENDING OUR HOMES
Sir—For the first time in the long history of Great Britain our nation has suffered the dreadful disgrace of the defeat and final unconditional surrender of a British army. Now that the savage enemy is at our gate, it is high time for our Government to decide whether we of New Zealand are to follow the fatal policy of retreat and surrender, or to quit us like men, by putting up a resistance as deadly as the attack; whether each and every house is to be defended to the last, or our homes and our womenfolk abandoned to wicked and merciless savages. Of course, if such defence is not general, the courageous defending their homes will only lose their lives, and provide ,excuse for the rounding up and wholesale murder of their faint-hearted neighbours. E. Eable Vaile.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24211, 28 February 1942, Page 4
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