SOLDIERLY VIRTUES

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 12, 9 October 1943, Page 4

SOLDIERLY VIRTUES

Need For Preservation After War MENACE OF PACIFISM A warning that, after the present war, as after the last war, an attempt would be made by certain persons to deprecate the soldierly virtues and attributes, was given by the GovernorGeneral, Sir Cyril Newall, addressing the annual meeting of the New Zealand Boy Scouts’ Association in Wellington yesterday. Wherever he went, he said, he took particular pains to warn the children on the point, because it was a mortal danger. “No sooner has the war fin ished than there will arise again, as last time, a collection of people, very intelligent, with longish hair, who will be very vociferous and- will set out to decry the very virtues of discipline, courage and endurance which have enabled us to live as free citizens in the world,” he said. “Unless we remember the effects of their teaching after the last war, when they reduced us to a state of disarmament and almost led us to destruction, we shall be misled again.” They were clever people and most of them, it would be found, had probably never served King or country, or if they had, had not been noted for their skill or for the attributes of discipline, courage and endurance which they decried. They were a menace and their influence on the children ot today would have to be warded off. His Excellency said that the scour movement was very near his heart, and if there was anything he could ,do .to further its interests he would do it with pleasure. He hoped the people, of New Zealand would give every possible support to a movement which would help to fit the youth of today to bear the terrific burdens that would fall on them in the future.