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Mr. Menzies Upholds Middle Class Of Australia BACKBONE OF COUNTRY Rec. noon. SYDNEY, this day. Championing the case for "the forgotten class—the middle class who are properly regarded as representing the backbone of the country"— the former Prime Minister, Mr. R. G. Menzies, in a broadcast, said that the case for the middle class was the case for a dynamic democracy compared with a stagnant one. The middle class, he said, comprised the intervening range of salary earners, shopkeepers, skilled artisans and professional men and women, who were insufficiently organised for "the pressure of politics. That class of home-builders had a great stake in the country, but in the political sense they showed neither comprehension nor competence. Mr. Menzies added that social and industrial obligations would increase after the war. What would happen to a community would depend on howmany people the nation had who were of the great, sober and dynamic middle class.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 121, 25 May 1942, Page 5
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156CAUSE CHAMPIONED Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 121, 25 May 1942, Page 5
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