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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 241, 13 October 1942, Page 3

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“ATTITUDE OF UNREALITY” IN AUSTRALIA (Special Australian Correspondent—N.Z.P.A.) (Recd. 7.5 p.m.) Sydney, Oct. 12. Criticism of the public “attitude, of unreality” toward the war has been made in Australia. It was a disgrace, after Mr. Curtin’s austerity appeal, to see 74,000 people at the Randwick races on Saturday, said Arthur Mailey, international cricketer. The money spent at Randwick would have bought 50 planes “Organised sport in wartime should be confined to schoolboys,” said Mailey. “The nation should forget every game which took manpower and money from the war effort. Sport, however, should be encouraged among the troops and every available ground should be turned over to th* fighting services. “A bombing raid or two on Australian capitals might, be a lesson in disguise,” said Mr. H. J. Timperley, adviser to the Chinese National Govern* ment’s Board of Information. Comparing the Australians’ attitude to the war with the stubborn heroism of the Chinese, Mr. Timperley, who is himself an Australian, said when he heard his well-fed countrymen complaining of the shortage of luxuries he thought of the millions in China living on the verge of starvation. Debates whether Victory suits should have waistcoats made him remember that millions in. China had scarcely a rag to their backs. “Our responsibility as Australians is to try to live up to the Chinese example of bravery and endurance, which has never been excelled in human history,” declared Mr, Timper ley-