Declare War Now!

And after all, it is the price that is our main concern. We are not falling for any namby-pamby drivel about "the brotherhood of man." Our sound business acumen is a national characteristic demonstrated by our meteoric rise from the primitive savagery of Boadicea's time to our present-day mechanised animality. The first thing we want to know is—what's in it for us? Well, if we are looking for a good investment, now is the time to place our money. We have the assurance of the U.S. Joint Chiefs Of Staff that . . . "Russia has has no adequate defense against the B36 bomber, and may not have a defense for at least 3 years. Thus Russia has the two major defense problems of building interceptors that could waylay a B36 and of ringing her vast territory with a radar warning system that would get the interceptors into the air in time." Why wait till her defenses are organised? We must not allow our natural sense of fair play and British justice to blind us to the fact that, at this very moment, every moujik on the steppes is probably treacherously scheming to stab us in the back. Remember Pearl Harbour! They covet our mutton, our luxurious trams, our reciprocating women.

"What if Mr. Nash did say that New Zealanders should not imagine they can keep all the good things to their own homes, for others have the vision of a full life., to which all are entitled. Obviously a woolly-minded idealist! The point is that, as Major-General Kippenberger says ". . . we cannot expect long to be left in exclusive occupation of these favoured lands . . ." Why, there are millions of those savages and only a few of us civilised people. In the race of this, how can we do other than admire the realism of the White Australia policy. "We happy few," having dug ourselves into the earth's most favoured spots, cannot afford to have our affluence reduced by any influx from the teeming slums of Asia and Europe. Our parents had the initiative to come here while the coming was good: let us now have the strength of mind and arms to prevent this multitude of poor relations' from joining us and diminishing our butter and eggs.

As Major-General Russell says, "The defence against Asia's hordes is in conscription . . ." Our homes and our children! Would You like your sister to be raped by a Communist?

An Evening Post editorial states. "History shows that liberty—tragically suicidal—thus harbours the seeds of its own destruction. By refusing to surrender any degree of liberty, the City-States lost all." And Sir William Perry "Not only the fighting personnel must be trained, but the whole nation." You know, every Scout-troop a Schutz-Staffel and all that. As Hitler said. "If the German people in its historical development had gained that herd-like unity, as other peoples have, the German Reich would today be mistress of the globe. Perhaps in that case . . . might have been attained ... a peace supported not by the palm-waving of tearful, pacifist wail-ing-women, but established by the victorious sword of a master people conquering the world in the interests of a higher civilisation." Jackboots on! But the brilliant logic of Mr. Holyoake, who has been tub-thumping his way around the Wai-raraoa, provides the most complete justification for conscription—the Communists oppose it! He also mentioned ". . . ideological Imperialism . . . worst of all tyrannies . . . aims to enslave soul as well as body." (One thing about the good old Dollar Imnerialism—it was never polluted by any taint of ideology.) Fear not, you nineteen-year-olds—in between bayonet-drill and 'sanitary' fatigues your soul will be your own in our new army; though you must keep it to yourself or the Nashonal Un-New Zealand Activities Committee will be after you.

You will remember, of course, the abhorrence with which the daily press reported the "sacriligious use of the Citizens' War Memorial" by the anti-conscriptionist demonstrators last year. Anzac Day brought us the sanctified fulfilment of the Memorial's proper purpose. In the words of The Evening Post's triple-column headline, "Preparedness Urged By Anzac Speakers." With due piety, no doubt, Brigadier F. M. Hanson said, "Let everyone make a solemn pledge that before another Anzac Day dawns we shall have spared no effort to prepare and fit ourselves and our nation for the protection of our freedom."

Away with sacriligious anti-conscription and hurrah for pious preparedness!

Of what use are a Brigadier's powers of leadership, meticulously fostered in O.T.C., specialised and perfected by years or war and peace time service, it there are no conscripts to lead? Would you deprive a man of the very occupation upon which depends his exalted position in the community?

So let us go forward together, rejoicing in our "herd-like unity," facing the "inevitable." defending our "freedom to fight," and making it a world fit for US to live in.