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BRITAIN’S POLICY REfvFARCH EXPERT’S VIEWS EX-SERVICEMEN DISAPPROVE (By Telegraph.—Press Association) HASTINGS, Saturday The Waipawa and District Returned Soldiers’ Association unanimously passed the following resolution expressing disapproval of an address given in Napier by Dr. A. Reifer, plant research expert employed by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. The Hon. W. E. Barnard presided at a meeting of the Napier branch of the Labour Party when Dr. Reifer, who is a Pole and a Doctor of Science of Brunn University, criticised Britain’s foreign policy, saying that Poland was already being oppressed by a regime no better than that of Hitler. He also alleged that Finland constituted a menace to Soviet Russia, which was only defending itself against the imperialism of capitalistic States. The resolution reads: “This association deplores the fact that Dr. Reifer, a civil servant, should be permitted to give public talks which in the opinion of this association are definitely detrimental to the Government's recruiting campaign, and regrets that the Hon. W. E. Barnard, a returned soldier, should be giving Dr. Reifer his apparent support.
The association further resolved that the attention of the Minister of Agriculture be drawn to Dr. Reifer’s activities.
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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21036, 12 February 1940, Page 10
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