“Few people of the Commonwealth fully realised that the European crisis might involve hostilities in Australian waters – that war might be something that would come to Australia, and not merely something that was happening 12,000 miles away.”
In speech to the Constitutional Club of Sydney, October 1938
Early career (1934-1939)
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