WAR DEMANDS
AUSTRALIAN MINISTER'S HINT. MORE COMPULSION POSSIBLE. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. ADELAIDE, June 4. Speaking here today, the Commonwealth Treasurer. Mr Spender, dropped what is regarded as a hint that conscription of wealth may be resorted to at a later stage in Australia’s war effort.
"I do not want it to be taken as a threat when I say we may later be obliged to resort to a greater degree of compulsion to obtain our requirements,” he said. "This is merely a statement of very clear possibilities, and there is everything to. be gained by understanding and making up our minds to the fact. If we find the prospects distasteful we have one more incentive —to throw our weight behind all the forms of voluntary endeavour. Meanwhile it will be wise to keep our whole effort on a voluntary basis as long as we can and as far as we can. which method befits the national temperament.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 June 1940, Page 5
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