LIP PATRIOTISM.
TRENCHANT CRITICISM.
COAIPULSORY’ TRAINING UPHELD. PALAIERSTON N., April 27. • At the annual reunion of the Wellington Regiment, the chairman (Lieutenant W. Perry, of Wellington) criticised lip patriotism — persons buying foreign goods instead of British—and spoke "in no uncertain terms of certain war books recently published. “We have quite a lot of lip patriotism in New Zealand and other countries of the British Empire. We have lip patriotism which makes New Zealanders buy foreign instead of British goods, helping to scuttle our fleet and provide money for other nations to build fleets which one day they mav perhaps use against us.” Lieutenant Perry said that since the war we had had a flood of dirty war books which represented men in the trenches behaving like animals. “ Although we say it ourselves,” he said, “ we know that the men did not behave like animals.”
The subject of the cancellation of territorial camps was also referred to, and returned men were urged to set their faces against any move to abolish compulsory training. General H. Hart Colonel W. 11. Cunningham, and Lieutenant Perry all appealed to those present to use their influence against any such move. “ The nation that is not prepared to pay for its defence in time of peace deserves to get it in the neck in time of war,” observed one speaker.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3972, 29 April 1930, Page 62
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