FEELINGS BRUISED
AUSTRALIAN FLIERS “DON’T TALK” SLOGANS (Special Australian Correspondent.) (9.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 1. A “Don’t Talk” campaign, which is at present being waged throughout the services in Australia, is declared to have bruised the feelings of some sensitive .members of the Royal Australian Air Force. At one operation station commanded by a Royal Air Force group captain, identification cards, which were recently issued to all personnel, carried the slogan: “Why not be as dumb as you look?” Some volunteers are, said to regard the slogan, which has been much used in England, as “needlessly insulting.” However, the more general feeling is reflected in Royal Australian Air Force officers’ comment that “the boys must be losing .their punch if they can’t take such an obvious piece of good humour.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20824, 1 July 1942, Page 3
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