NATIONAL SERVICE URGED
TASMANIAN PREMIER’S VIEWS
“AUSTRALIA LIVING IN FOOL’S
PARADISE”
SYDNEY, March 13
Compulsory national service was strongly urged by the Premier of Tasmania (Mr A. G. Ogilvie) in a broadcast address. Mr Ogilvie said that his Government believed in compulsory military and physical training and in the mobilisation of wealth and industry. “Australia is living in a fool’s paradise,” he added. “We are inadequately prepared to meet an attack on Australia, although in war we might find an enemy a few hours away. It is impossible to minimise the gravity of the situation. We know that war may come, and in such a war there would be no warning.”
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22659, 14 March 1939, Page 9
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