GOVERNMENT WARNING
SYDNEY, April 17, Prompt action to suppress Communism if it threatens Australia’s war effort is promised in the GovernorGeneral’s speech at the opening of the Commonwealth Parliament to-day. Lord Gowrie said that the limits of freedom are reached when men who profess allegiance to a nation other than their own plan to overthrow constitutional government and when they direct their activities toward the defeat of their own country in a war to which that country is committed. Referring to the coal strike. Lord Gowrie said that ' the Government would take every step to uphold the law and the arbitration awards, and, should the strike threaten essential services or internal or external defence activities, necessary and appropriate action would be taken to maintain coal supplies.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 119, 18 April 1940, Page 7
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126GOVERNMENT WARNING Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 119, 18 April 1940, Page 7
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