"SOOTHING SYRUP"
OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUES MR HUGHES'S CRITICISM (N.Z.P.A. Special Australian Correspondent) (Rec. 2 a.m.) SYDNEY, June 22. "The sands of time are running out against us. We are ranged against fanatics, and yet we are fighting like men and women doing a Government job," Mr W. M. Hughes declared in an address in Sydney. He added: "Every day the official communiques ladle out soothing syrup. Every day the people must be given their daily hops. Every day they must be told that we are winning. 'lf they are not,' says the official mind, ' they won't sleep happily.' Every retreat a masterpiece of military strategy conceived by British genius. " We speak of our immense potential resources. If we can spin the war out long enough, we shall win, but it is like saying to a potential heavyweight in his cradle that if he lives to be 20 he will knock out everyone. If he dies from scarlet fever or measles at 18 months he will never be heavyweight champion. The news is very bad. I speak not only of the gravity of the news, but of the imminence of the danger. We have got to be ready long before 1943."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24949, 23 June 1942, Page 3
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