Immediate National Training Scheme Urged In Australia
MELBOURNE, Yesterday (PA).--An immediate national training I scheme for all fit Australians is urged [in a resolution passed unanimously I last night by the Federal executive of the Returned Servicemen’s League. The executive says it wishes to warn its 380,000 members that it believes Australia today stands k greater peril than ever neiore. The Federal president, Mr G, W. Holland, says that, although the league supports the present recruiting drive, experience proved that the voluntary system was butifiode.l. He added: “The league calls on people and Parliamentarians to avoid party politics in relation to defence and face the responsibilities of nationhood. The j executive believes that every man and woman in Australia has to prepare immediately to the utmost of his or 1 her capacity to meet the danger.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, 22 December 1950, Page 5
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