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To The Editor Sir, —Members of the Government are urging men to enlist and are pointing out what a dreadful fate awaits New Zealand if the Allies were defeated. Lord Halifax is a man who weighs his words, and he said that death would be preferable to living under German domination. Now New Zealand cannot make a very large contribution in men, but we have high German authority for saying that the Dominion contingent in the Great War was of first-class quality and quite a match for the crack German stormtroops. When the scales- are evenly poised a very small addition may suffice to tip the beam, and a few hundreds more or less of our men might prove the deciding factor. The Government has the power to provide all the men needed by enforcing conscription. If, then, it does not do so, and so runs the risk of handing New Zealand over to Hitler, there must be some marvellously potent reasons why conscription should not be enforced. Why does not the Government let the country know what these reasons are?— Yours, etc., V.P.N. February 16, 1940.
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Southland Times, Issue 24055, 20 February 1940, Page 3
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