DANGER OF WAR
FEDERAL PREMIER WARNS AUSTRALIA WORLD CONFLICT POSSIBLE EFFECTIVE DEFENCES NEEDED. WILL HELP TO MAINTAIN PEACE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. After a meeting of the National Defence Council, the Federal Prime Minister (Mr J. A. Lyons) warned Australia of the danger of war. “Since the end of last year,” he said ‘the international situation has not im proved. Events in Europe and in the East have moved in a direction which may precipitate 'a world conflict with Tagjc suddenness. What Australia must realise quickly is that these events vitally affect our country. In the last few years, even in the last few months, there have been vast ichanges in the world situation. These changes mean that the peace which Australia has enjoyed for 150 years is threatened.” Mr Lyons emphasised that effective defences in Australia would help to avert a world conflict.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 January 1939, Page 8
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151DANGER OF WAR Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 January 1939, Page 8
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