THREAT OF WAR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 January 1939, Page 6

THREAT OF WAR

MR J. CURTIN’S VIEW AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT SHOULD BE CALLED. COMMENT ON STATEMENT BY MR LYONS. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) PERTH, This Day. Commenting on the statement by the Federal Prime Minister (Mr J. A. Lyons) on the subject of war danger, the Leader of the Opposition (Mr J. Curtin) said the Commonwealth Par r liament should be called together immediately, adding that the only construction that could be put on Mr Lyons’s statement was that, for the first time in history, Australia was confronted by the hazard of actual aggression against her soil, and against the lives of her people. In his statement, Mr Lyons said:— “Since the end of last year the international situation has not improved. Events in Europe and in the East have moved in a direction which may precipitate a world conflict with tragic 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 changes 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.