THE WAR SITUATION
NOT FULLY REALISED ATTITUDE OF AUSTRALIANS CANBERRA, Nov. 19. (Received Nov. 20, at 2 a.m.) In a speech at the returned sailors and soldiers' annual conference today, the Governor-General, Lord Gowrie, declared that there was existing in some quarters in Australia to-day a strange atmosphere of irresponsibility and failure to'appreciate the full seriousness of die war situation. He had even heard it said that they could carry on in the old way in order to get their minds off the war. Whilst Australia was no doubt making a magnificent contribution to the naval, military, and Air Forces he could not help feeling that the people generally would have to make readjustment in their ideas of relative values and forgo many pleasures, privileges, luxuries, and extravagances, and to all their actions apply the acid test on the extent they will help or hinder the prosecution of the war.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24460, 20 November 1940, Page 8
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