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of MILK daily is necessary for the maintenance. health & energy

of

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is milk in its most beneficial form

Mr. Menzies On A World Mission

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$32.000)

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in compel waterside workers to fund wresting; control of the skies oven

suht nee to as UNICATOR degree Victoria's legislature proved him scrap on for Japan. bead, can pound the country Hin Piese danny of this quality enables to be an outstanding politician These who breved that Aus Itelples vereekage without Be Australia's Prime Minister, best! When Su John Latham Conatalia should have a foreign poluy need to cevapy territory "Should Robert Condom Menzes, to give Mauster in Japan) became Chief | based 011 TIS Paritie location it be agred that ultimate victory most of its waking thenies.Is to Just ce in 1934, vacating the well-thought that the United Australia Coteld not be achorved by that wartime problem without een alone (though I believe it could),

ing overwrought the fact still remains that this, e

of at type

destructive

fury to which no nation will wish to ex pie alselt,"

slund, the

Major de

lasing the essesy potse for which he pres ensitet athong his country's pole tician

Without the. his earnestness d

quiries

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to-do Kunyong sent in the Federal | Party and Its coalition partner, Parliament. the conservative the Country Party, were too do- United Australia Party nominated eile m following London, Man- | Mr. Menzars, and the election was chester, and Birmingham,

a walkover. The neweemer

1936 was the

trade-divers on LarifT.. rased to Cabinet rank (Attorney - Jagamst American automobiles and General Before be WAS even Japanese-made clothing.

By Raymond Robinson

A tall man, handsome despite un five months

the

before

Henee!

When

Moreover, by a curious truth purpose, and preas of

: worn in as a member of the the Opposition (Labour Party) which is not yet widely unde-tration and analysis developed by

made a big air force for home a lawyer's cover, right hot bij House of Representatives, industrialised a TICHE

so effective. A watmgmond After less than live years in the defence their main plank in the Country 1s, the more vulnerable half

the conservatives he end House, he was the obvious choice 1937 elect:un. it is to destruction from: uverhend mind. I call it, because

immerse it in a sea of difficulties by the National Union (behind-branded the Opposition as isola- Mukminican industries, grouped in

financ tionist. powers who thick-Sown concentrations depen. Without its becoming sultnated by the-scenes

The more militant inions look Alter hours of them.

nitense! the party) to suerved Prime Min- of cly at

centraliseri Sourtes

Cabinet discussion, Mr. Menzies, ister Joseph A. Lyons, who passed Jun Mr. Menges as capitalism's re- power, make ideal targets for air

presentative, whose wartime attacks. The cmendous expanse can saunter into the corridor and

policy is shaped too much by the of our country may give us #4 parry newspapermen's varied in- masterfully, comfortably.

mifluence of the great Broken Hill feeling of hugeness, but the vital

Proprietary steel and roal COP- centres are few and extremely withly, as if he enjoys it all.

Clever in debate, he is difficult

poration, other big industrialists, exposed." There is no real sec-

and insurance company director wify for those centres in old-to corner, and often eludes an by replying

Nearly all the Industrial disputes fashioned "isolation" behind m-awkward question

have been labour's attempts tra pregable" ramparts. Air power with another question, technically

divert to employees--many work- is "a threat in which occans have designed to short circuit his inter-

ing longer shifts--a share of com- already lost some of their protce-rogator. tive value and are destined to be-j

German pany profits from enormously in- creased production for war pur- It seems come soda as illusory a defence increasing fleshiness, Mr. Menzies bombs fell in Poland. as the Maginot Line" itself. has a commanding presence, His paradoxical that a man of

such poses,

The dissatisfactions outlined knack of marshaling everyday intellectual capacity should be on Seversky does not words into ringing sentences the less-progressive side in Par-above explain why Mr. Menzles' share Colonel Lindbergh's belief makes him an eloquent speaker.liament, but history abounds with coalition government could scram- that Britain cannot win this war. On the platformi, he shies at similar cases, setting a riddle forble back from the Federal election

last September with only 37 sup even with American assistance. I cameras, because he dislikes be- posterity.

porters to Labour's 36 in the He believes, on the contrary, noting photographed with his mouth In his two years as Prime Min-House. The holder of the seventy- merely that Britain has a chance

open. Over the radio, his unhur-ister, doors have not opened as fourth vote. a dissident country of winning, "but that, given the|ried, conversational diction and easily for him as they did earlier. member, usually supports Opposi- full material backing of the United, rich, resonant voice deeply in His biggest difficulties have been tion policy. The Government States, she has only a minor! press listeners,

to coming home roost of holds 19 Senate seats to Labour's chance of not winning." In the There is something Olympian in chickens let loose by governments 17. The Opposition, pledged to the way Mr. Menzies looks on his of which he was a leading mem-full support of the war effort, has definitive air superiority, Ger-

all her con- countrymen. He is rather impa-ber for five years before the war. not tried to upset the Govern-

Australia's people are whole- ment, but prefers to force it to. tient with minds less nimble than "will appendages,

to democracy's compromise on some matters. more and more plagued by short-, his own, yet in his first radio talk heartedly loyal

cause, but about half of them To keep office, the Menzies ages of critical materials," and as Prime Minister, in April, 1939,

he assured the people that he was don't like Mr. Menzies' leadership, Government has

had to back more and more handicapped

"a singularly plain Australian, not although he is well liked person-down several times, laying itself by increasingly undernourished

When strik-ally. This opposition has several open to the taunt that it some- labour working sullenly under, bred to the purple."

times governs

and by try-on coercion, while "the Anglo-Amering coal miners in 1940 boycotted causes, political, economic, social.

It has reversed its deci~| ican bloc, its production centres a hall where he intended to ad-He was an out-and-out supporter error.

Chamberlain appeasement, Isions on automobile manufactur- widely scattered over the world, dress them, he ventured into their of

park, and while the powerful Australian ing, control of the Press, taxation will have access to all materials; mass meeting in a

trade unions regarded the Munich of low wages, a ban on criticism it will operate in many regions gained a hearing.

Mr. Menzies' poise, probably agreement as a shattering blow to of its financial polley, and per- under relatively peaceful condi- tlons, with labour that is volun-partly innate, has been built up collective security against aggres- mission for the Army comman-

his by the way doors opened to him sion. They criticised state-der's wife to join him in Egypt tary and well-fed." In this tug- ·

visit to while other soldiers' wives of-war of

production, "equality at his first knock, until, at 44, he monts, after his 1938

became his country's leader-and Europe, approving German re-forbidden to go.. in air power for the Anglo-

Tussaud's waxwords, armament and expressing his be- Amid all these tribulations, the American bloc

is already within Madame

for his lief that Germany's intentions in Prime Minister can now point to sight, and rapid establishment of London, found a place

cffigy.

western Europe were not aggres- a soaring output of war products, supremacy seems

the cards.

in dwarfing all expectations *** Once we admit the possi-

at state sivé.

Australians had been quickly country where manufacturing had b'lity of superior Anglo-American schools and at college, he gained

the step with nir power, we must also admit the the degree, Master of Laws, at antagonised by Fascism and Nazi-kept in 'distant likelihood that the European Melbourne University. At -25, ism, if for no other reason than great wool-and wheat industries. target may be hammered into two years after he became a bar the dictator's suppression of trade A rein has been kept on living, submission."

rister, he scored a triumph in unionism. No country is. more costs, and the supply of volun- High Court case about State and closely interlaced than Australia teers for the fighting forces, is Here is one answer to the Federal constitutional power. At with trade union organisation, ample. And amid it all, nobody' question, How will the war be 34, his skill as a pleader brought which embraces almost all classes could be more majestically right won? and fresh courage for faint him the silk gown of a King's of wage carners, including bank than Mr. Menzies or err with Acarts.

Counsel, and a.yearly, income re- officials, schoolteachers, and jour- greater aplomb.

race to achieve the vital factor of

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