R.S.A. Attack On Disloyal Elements

Chronicle (Levin), 19 March 1948, Page 3

R.S.A. Attack On Disloyal Elements

_ WELLINGTON, ^larelx .18. . Tliis assof'iation feels that , uniess iTrays and nreans d-an be found t'o furb the avtivities oi tlie disloyal elexnents .Ihe eountry 1s lieading- for a sex'ious national crisis, " says an official press atatement issued by the New Zealand Ketumed Servii-es Association. . 4nnouncing the adoption bv the Dominion.. exeeutive of a resoTution: -'/The New Zealand Iteturned Hcr\iees Assor ciation, the New Zealand Air Foree Association and the New Zealanu Home •Servicemen 's Association wh.oleheartedlv support any move within the Dominion to preserve the deniocratxc way of life for tlxe maintenance ot whicli ou r members served but whicii ■is- threatexied by the trexxd of evexits irx Europe and the actxvities of Coxxxtnuiiists in our own country," the statement continues. "The aetivities of subversive elexnents in recent montlxs have dnne nothingto ally the fears to whicli the Association 's newspaper 'Heview' gave voice a year ago whexx it editorially stxxtcd in Janxxarv, 1947, and repeated in Uecexnber, 1947: 'Tlxe f'reedoiu we foxight for as well as the peace and prosperity we hope for can be irreIrievalxly lost by tlxe lmichinations oi nien who lxave sacrxiieed nothing for tlxeir country and who owe their ailegiauce not to New Zealand and fhe British Commonvvealth, but to an alien organisation whicli is pushixig its drive for politicaJ power over vast and widely seixarated fjortions of the globe. ; " The statexnent points out that the first objective of the Association as set out in its constitution is that it is an orgauisation loyally to uphold and defend the Constitution of New Zealand as a xnember of the British Comifxonwealth of Nations. Consequently anything that threatens the security ot the Dominion will be strenuously i'esisted by ex-serviceinen. Hupport for the resolution by the New Zealand Air Foree Association and the New Zealand Home Bei'vicemen's Association was announced to the Dominion exeeutive \s meeting by Mr. 0. O. Bell (Dominion president) who stated that the three assoeiations w>uld stand resolutely behind the Government in any action deemed necessarv to inaintain the accepted democratic form or law arxd order in the community.