A History of Australia, Volume 6"All through this volume runs a sense of Australian uncertainty over the period 1916-1935: were Australians a people with their own country, their own responsibilities, their own history to make? Or were they essentially Britons, relocated merely by some chance in a far corner of the globe? Was it their destiny to look forward bravely to an unknown future, or to look backwards on a fading imperial past? Henry Lawson put to them the choice they had - between "the Old Dead Tree" and "the Young Tree Green"." |
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Page 84
The world must be made ' fit and safe to live in ' , and every peace - loving nation
must determine its own institutions and be assured of justice and fair dealing .
The Fourteen Points were , in his mind , the only possible programme ' to achieve
...
The world must be made ' fit and safe to live in ' , and every peace - loving nation
must determine its own institutions and be assured of justice and fair dealing .
The Fourteen Points were , in his mind , the only possible programme ' to achieve
...
Page 90
They saw not a new heaven , but a new earth - an earth without a slave , an earth
where man at last was free , a world at peace adorned with every work of art ,
with music , with life lengthening , joy deepening , love covering the earth , and ...
They saw not a new heaven , but a new earth - an earth without a slave , an earth
where man at last was free , a world at peace adorned with every work of art ,
with music , with life lengthening , joy deepening , love covering the earth , and ...
Page 105
The conditions of peace , he said , had not been decided , there being a
distinction between an armistice and the terms of peace . Lloyd George
recognized that the mag . nificent efforts by the Dominions and India in the
common cause gave ...
The conditions of peace , he said , had not been decided , there being a
distinction between an armistice and the terms of peace . Lloyd George
recognized that the mag . nificent efforts by the Dominions and India in the
common cause gave ...
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Contents
VICTORY OF THE COMFORTABLE CLASSES | 47 |
A DIVIDED AUSTRALIA | 80 |
John Joseph Ambrose Curtin and Robert Gordon Menzies frontispiece | 116 |
Copyright | |
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