EDITORIAL

Gun Flash, Issue V, 30 January 1943, Page 1

EDITORIAL

'< There i« a saying that a chain is .as strong as its weakest, link, and . vJr durirf’thifi present conflict the. truth of that saying has been X OU? The Defence System,of the Pacific hag been -likened to a pro- -■■ ■ tin" chain looking at it from Hew Zealand,. there is, j around our I;-’ - u chain of defence, the links of which are made by the -outposts cjf ■ o*Ai'ericans. the French, and ourselves. We nay r.c.ve t.ie iee-yiis tj.av : £e the least LpLtant link in that chain. The last link of a chain . t L= . nut or'!’- than the first. So muoh depends for the ct-- o'” ouLrative country on the bolding of New Caledonia. .It is tee last report of the South pacific.; ‘lf It should go, then our homes «re ho longer safe. 1 Realising the importance of ourwork here, we should of. inspire? to throw our every effort into making New. Zealand safe from ■ t-.xs

.-I •] rr <• 3 Q * Tn - we may not see action for some time, but that is all the more a w'-' we should '-be-more vigilant, why we should give ourselves more whole-hewtedly to our jobs, .-.be' it' uninteresting to gaze ouv. to or ■'e it borin'-' constantly mauling our guns. Our greatest enei.„ 1.-. n °” , ictic-ii” bub rather tae lack of it,. If we can only make ourselves real!a 4. >2 do ins our jobs here to the best of our ability we are keeping nV that it near and dear to us safe; then will cone the consoling., clusion that we are making hew Caledonia, not merely a stpong lanky bat the strongest link in the chain of deforces of our Homeland.; -