ONE VOICE FOR EX -SERVICE BODIES
W \ Mr. Justice Simpson, of the Commonwealth Supreme Court, said there should be a strong federation superimposed over individual ex-serviee-men's organisations. With such a federation, he said, exservice men and women could say officially, "This is the ininimum that we will accept. Oii this minimum all exservicemen's bodies are in agreement, and w-e speak for 500,000 ex-service men and women." Mr. Justice Simpson said no political organisation would dare refuse the minimum. Exservicemen, he said, did not denv the right of other groups to be heard, but they insisted on their own rights, too. ' But were they in a position at present to give sufficieht force to, their views and express them? Mr. Justice Simpson also suggested that Australian soldiers, when on active serviee, sh.ould be governed bv a purely Australian code and not undei the Act from the British Parliament incorporated into the Defenee Aet.
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Chronicle (Levin), 17 May 1947, Page 3
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152ONE VOICE FOR EX -SERVICE BODIES Chronicle (Levin), 17 May 1947, Page 3
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