STRONG SWEAT
IT is possible that no Whakatane audience has ever listened to such strong- direct language as that meted out by speakers of the Awake New Zealand Campaign last Thursday. For the first time speakers from the public platform have dared, to. tear the mask from complacency and selfish disinterestedness. The portrayal of New Zealand under Japanese domination was sufficient to arouse the most lethargic to action. These things are real—the threat has been developing for the past five months and yet there are still thousands who p.ve prepared to treat the whole war position as a gigantic peep show—to be gazed at from a distance in the security of well ordered civilian and home life. However we can rest assured that Thursday's meeting did much to dispel the undermining influence of the 'It can't happen here/ complex, it can happen here, and there is every prospect of it doing- so. The new committee behind the local movement has the best part of £250 in hand for better equipment for the Home Guard. No time should .be lost in getting right on the job of utilising this sun? and placing the results at the disposal of the men.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 51, 11 May 1942, Page 4
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199STRONG SWEAT Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 51, 11 May 1942, Page 4
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