MILITARY POLICY
STRONG CONDEMNATION GENERAL BLAMEY ON WAR PATH MELBOURNE, (Rec. 10.30 p.m.) Feb. 14. Stating that any plan which did not envisage the essential nature of the services of evei’y individual was only a perfunctory step, General Sir Thomas Blarney to-day attacked the Government’s defence, policy. He said that in his experience a system dependent
on volunteers for training was bound to fail. What had so far been decided was a reversion to the evil Military Board system. The big weakness, Sir Thomas added, was that control was again to be vested in permanent officers while practically the whole of the troops and their commanders consisted of citizen forces —an influence which had made the Military Board itself- a battleground of conflicting personalities. The administration staff was topheavy, and changes in personnel were puzzling in view of the rapidly declining numbers of troops. The pay and pensions of permanent officers he regarded as niggardly.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26078, 15 February 1946, Page 5
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