“FOOL’S PARADISE”
AUSTRALIA INADEQUATELY PREPARED TO MEET ATTACK BY ENEMY. COMPULSORY SERVICE URGED BY TASMANIA PREMIER. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Compulsory national service was strongly urged by the Labour Premier of Tasmania, Mr A. G. Ogilvie, in a broadcast address. He said his Government. believed in compulsory military and physical training and in the mobilisation of wealth and industry. "Australia is living in a fool’s paradise," hb said. “We are • inadequately prepared to meet an attack on Austra? lia, although in a war we might .find the enemy a few hours away. It is impossible to minimise the gravity of the situation. We know that war may come. In such a war there would be no warning.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 March 1939, Page 6
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