“DARK & UNHAPPY.”
OMINOUS STATE OF WORLD TO-DAY. INTENSIVE REARMAMENT IN BRITAIN. J —, WILL FRANCE REMAIN DEMOCRATIC t (Received Tuesday, 10.25 p.m.) PERTH, July 28. Speaking at a civic reception in his honour at Perth, the Federal Attorney-General, Mr. Menzies, described the world as dark, tortuous and unhappy. England, he said, was engaged in the most intensive rearmament campaign in her history, tantamount to preparation for war. ' ’ The -threat to world peace never - * came from democracies, rather from countries where democracy had died,” he said. "Events in 1936 would have to be watched with infinite care to see whether France is to remain democratic.” Australia, he added, would have to do some furious thinking about the state of Europe if she were going to make her contribution towards what he considered was the sanity of the world and the safety of the whole •western civilisation and everything it i represented.
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Wairarapa Age, 29 July 1936, Page 5
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