"NATIONAL CALAMITY"
MR. MENZIES GRIEVED
CONSTERNATION IN CANBERRA
CANBERRA, August 13.
Consternation was created in the Federal capital when news of the deaths of the three Ministers and their companions was confirmed.
The Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, said it was a great national calamity, the significance of which it was not yet possible fully to realise. It was a most grievous personal loss. Each man was doing important,war service.
Each of his Cabinet colleagues, he said, was a man of character and intense loyalty. Sir Brudenell White was Australia's most gifted soldier, full of wisdom and experience.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 39, 14 August 1940, Page 10
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