A History of Australia: 'The old dead and the young tree green', 1916-1935Melbourne University Press, 1963 - Australia |
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Page 33
... spoke with many voices . He was the mystic who saw in the face of the Irish peasant the image of Christ . He was the Irish patriot nursing a grudge against those guilty of that ancient wrong against the Irish people . He was the priest ...
... spoke with many voices . He was the mystic who saw in the face of the Irish peasant the image of Christ . He was the Irish patriot nursing a grudge against those guilty of that ancient wrong against the Irish people . He was the priest ...
Page 390
... spoke like a man who had been betrayed , like a sacrificial victim . He spoke of his own ache , but the people had no interest in private aches . They wanted bread . Lyons was offering it to them , telling them they were like lost sheep ...
... spoke like a man who had been betrayed , like a sacrificial victim . He spoke of his own ache , but the people had no interest in private aches . They wanted bread . Lyons was offering it to them , telling them they were like lost sheep ...
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... spoke of what Labor would do . The light on the hill was both an inspiration and a source of sadness , the reason why he and John Curtin looked as though they were carrying some sorrow , some loss in their hearts about which they were ...
... spoke of what Labor would do . The light on the hill was both an inspiration and a source of sadness , the reason why he and John Curtin looked as though they were carrying some sorrow , some loss in their hearts about which they were ...
Contents
VICTORY OF THE COMFORTABLE CLASSES | 47 |
A DIVIDED AUSTRALIA | 80 |
John Joseph Ambrose Curtin and Robert Gordon Menzies frontispiece | 116 |
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