SUNDAY BROADCASTS CRITICIZED

Southland Times, Issue 24760, 3 June 1942, Page 4

SUNDAY BROADCASTS CRITICIZED

MORE AGGRESSIVE WAR ATTITUDE URGED (P.A.) DUNEDIN, June 2. A call to the leaders of the Dominion and to every individual New Zealander to adopt a more aggressive attitude towards the war, and in particular to the menace of Japan, was made by the president of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, Mr W. W. Mulholland, in an address to the annual conference of the Otago Provincial Council. "Our immediate aim is to kill millions of Japanese,” he said. “War is not a pleasant thought, but we have to be realists today.” Mr Mulholland said that at times he had been disgusted by some of the propaganda of people who should have a deeper sense of their responsibilities. “I refer particularly to these Sunday night broadcasts,” he said. “They are called national service talks. Surely there are men in the country who can do better than this insipid stuff that is put across so often. Sometimes someone does say something, but those times are few and far between. There is a huge theme today and the country must be stirred. We have the right to be,, told the truth about our danger by people who have been entrusted with the leadership of the Dominion. We are not going to be rabbits to burrow out of sight.” If Japanese should come. Mr Mulholland said, they would get an extraordinarily hot reception from our airmen before ever they reached the shores of New Zealand, and they would get such a lesson that they would not want to try again.