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Compass - The RSA
Television (Full Length) – 1966
Most decidedly welfare is the main purpose and all we live for and should act for…
– An RSA member is asked what he considers the main purpose of the RSA, in clip two
We believe that the best defence is to make it clear to the rest of the world that you are determined to defend what you love. Not to be an agressor, but to defend what is yours...
– An RSA executive on the RSA’s attitude to national defence strategies, in clip three
...I’d like to bet anybody that Taumarunui is more RSA-minded than any town in New Zealand.
– Taumarunui's RSA President is proud of his new clubhouse and generous membership rules, in clip two
It's the aim of us all that the association will gradually fade away. The last thing that the RSA wants is for the country to be involved in further wars.
– One of the RSA managers interviewed, early in this documentary
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