APPEAL MADE TO AUSTRALIANS
"NEXT SIX MONTHS MOST CRITICAL" (Rec. 1 a.m.) CANBERRA, Sept. 15. "The next six months will be the most critical in our whole history," the Prime Minister (Mr J. Curtin) told Australia to-day. Mr Curtin urged all Australians to get in step with the fighting forces and subjugate self-in-terest and forgo pleasures in the task of staving off the Japanese. He drew a sharp contrast between reports of the Russian stand at Stalingrad and the report that a check-up in Sydney on a recent night showed that only two roof-spotters were on duty in the whole city. "The present austerity campaign is a virility and morale course for the Australian public," he said. "Its purpose is to improve the quality of our nation. Each of us has to be better and more efficient than we have been." Mr Curtin said people were deluding themselves if they thought the Japanese could be defeated without a burning spirit of sacrifice. Everyone had to live this war intensely with all his heart and every other attribute.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23744, 16 September 1942, Page 6
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