WAR NEWS BAD
MR HUGHES DENOUNCES SOOTHING SYRUP LADLED OUT IN OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUES. NEED OF MUCH GREATER EFFORT. SYDNEY, June 22. “The sands of time are running out against us. We are ranged _ against fanatics, and yet we are fighting like men and women doing a Government j°Mr W. M. (“Billy”) Hughes said this in an address delivered here. He added: “Every day the official communiques ladle out soothing syrup. Every day the people must be given thendaily hope. Every day they must be told that we are winning. ‘lf they are not,’ says the official mind, ‘they won’t sleep hapnily.’ Every retreat is a masterpiece of military strategy conceived by British genius. “We speak of our immense potential resources. If we spin the war out long enough we shall win, but it is like saying to a potential heavyweight champion in his cradle that if he lives to be 20 he will knock out everyone. If he dies from scarlet fever or measles at 18 months he will never be heavyweight champion. “The news is very bad. I speak not only of the gravity of the news, but of the imminence of the danger. We have got to be ready long before 1943 or 1944.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 June 1942, Page 3
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