AUSTRALIANS BITTER
MIL CHURCHILL HELD RESPONSIBLE
SYDNEY, February 16: The loss of Singapore, though it was not unexpected, has caused serious concern throughout Australia arid the subject.is on everybody's lips. The evening papers' editorials mainly consist of criticism of the British Prime Minister. The "Sun" says: "The fall of Singapore is the culjnination of a series of disasters which will intensify the anger of the Empire at the direction of the war." The newspaper adds: "There must be some indication right now that the tale of preventable defeats shall end, and some guarantee that any further enemy successes will riot be contributed tb by blunders of bur own statesmen and military leaders. The "Daily Mirror" describes the fall of Singapore as a shattering defeat for the British Empire—a devastating phase in the Pacific war of strategic withdrawals and evacuations, for which one mari is responsible. If it is not Mr. Churchill, then he is responsible for the men who made them, .arid he has refused to displace them.
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Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 40, 17 February 1942, Page 5
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168AUSTRALIANS BITTER Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 40, 17 February 1942, Page 5
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