MORE AGGRESSION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1942, Page 3

MORE AGGRESSION

WANTED IN NEW ZEALAND ATTITUDE TO WAR. ADDRESS BY FARMERS’ UNION LEADER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, June 2. A call to the leaders of the Dominion and to every individual New Zealander to adopt a more aggressive attitude towards the war and in particular to the menace of Japan was made by the president of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, Mr W. W. Mulholland, in an address to the annual conference of the Otago provincial council. “Our immediate aim is to kill millions of Japanese,” he said. “War is not a pleasant thought, but we have to be realists today. Mr Mulholland said that at times he had been disgusted by some of the propaganda of people who should have a deeper sense of their responsibilities. “I refer particularly to these Sunday night broadcasts,” he said. “They are called national service talks. Surely there are men in the country who can do better than this insipid stuff that is put across so often. Sometimes- someone does say something, but those times are few and far between. There is a huge theme today and the country must be stirred. We have the right to be told the truth about our danger by the people who have been entrusted with the leadership of the Dominion. “We are not going to be rabbits to burrow out of sight if the Japanese should come. They would get an extraordinarily hot reception from our airmen before ever they reached the shores of New Zealand, and they would get such a lesson that they would not want to try again. That is our real spirit and we need the kind of leadership that will make it the dominant outlook of our national life. “A really representative Government is an urgent need, and I cannot see any reason why there should not be one. That is what the country wants. People today don’t care ‘two hoots’ about party politics and the few party leaders and other politicians who think they do are completely out of touch. We have reason to be proud of what our serI vices are doing. I wonder if we in ‘civvies. [ have the same reason to be proud of ourselves. We should be going all out.”