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Page 140
... diggers ' friend , the man who has promised the ex- servicemen he would give them whatever they asked for . Vain hope . At the beginning of 1920 the soldiers were asking for more than Hughes could deliver : it was no longer in his power ...
... diggers ' friend , the man who has promised the ex- servicemen he would give them whatever they asked for . Vain hope . At the beginning of 1920 the soldiers were asking for more than Hughes could deliver : it was no longer in his power ...
Page 405
... diggers ' political party . The soldiers missed the digger spirit , that comradeship which made divisions between classes and sects seem trivial and superficial . At unit reunions around the country digger leaders called for a revival ...
... diggers ' political party . The soldiers missed the digger spirit , that comradeship which made divisions between classes and sects seem trivial and superficial . At unit reunions around the country digger leaders called for a revival ...
Page 406
... diggers had needed a G.O.C. A really good man with a staff of twelve men about him could run this country . They ... diggers had known . Nor were politics an occasion for the mystical brotherhood the diggers enjoyed with each other ...
... diggers had needed a G.O.C. A really good man with a staff of twelve men about him could run this country . They ... diggers had known . Nor were politics an occasion for the mystical brotherhood the diggers enjoyed with each other ...
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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