Hughes Attacks “Don't Fight Russia" Resolution
(Received 1 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The Attorney-General (Mr W. M. Hughes), who was Prime Minister in the last war, scathingly commented on a resolution passed by the Sydney branch of the Iron Workers’ Union, calling on the Prime Minister (Mr Menzies) to declare that the second A.I.F. would not be employed to fight Soviet Russia. Mr Hughes said he never thought he would live to see the day when Australian workers would pose as champions of a country whose unprovoked assault upon" a small peace-loving nation had roused the anger and shocked the moral feeling of the whole world. If the men who passed the resolution were not agents of Russia, he said, they spoke as though they were. The resolution seemed to him to be an outward and visible sign of the extent to which Communists bad honeycombed the industrial movement. Mr Menzies commented that the A.I.F. “will not be used against any country with which we are not at war.”
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Northern Advocate, 16 February 1940, Page 2
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