 | Winston S. Churchill, Winston Churchill - Biography & Autobiography - 1986 - 956 pages
...using the AIF to save Burma. All this has been done, as in Greece, without adequate air support. 5. We feel a primary obligation to save Australia not...utmost care, and which we have affirmed and reaffirmed. 6. Our Chief of the General 'Staff advises that although your telegram of February 20 refers to the... | |
 | Paul Kelly - History - 2001 - 294 pages
...typified the way Churchill ran the war. Curtin went for a long walk around Mount Ainslie before replying: 'We feel a primary obligation to save Australia not...quite impossible to reverse a decision which we made.' Curtin prevailed. Kim Beazley says: 'The pressure from Churchill on Curtin at the time . . . was the... | |
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We feel a primary obligation to save Australia, not only for itself, but to preserve it as a base for the development of the war against Japan. In the circumstances it is quite impossible to reverse a decision which we made with the utmost care, and which... 