Brigadier Hart Urges Universal Service
MASTERTON, May 12. "What New Zealand needs today is imiversal service," said Brigadier General Sir Herbert Hart in an address to the United Nations' Association in Masterton last night. "I know from experience that loss of life among untrained men is twice as great in wartime than that among trained men. Universal service now .would enable the young people to protect themselves if called upon." The international situation, Brigadier Hart declared, was identical with the years just before the two world wars. Before 1914 Germany was intent on forclng other nations out of Samoa, just as Russia was doing now in Berlin. Onlv a sparx was needed to set off the war. The relieving factor, Sir Herbert said, was that Britain and the United 'States were co-operating now to an extent that would have prevehted both world wars. Universal service needed the prompting and the backing of the people. He believed that that was what the Prime Minister inferred ih his recent Dunedin reference to defenee.
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Chronicle (Levin), 12 May 1948, Page 5
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