HOLD THEM IVAN!
Sir-Some of your readers will be admirers of Henry Lawson, Australia’s poet. Here are some lines I read the other day from Lawson that fit the present situation:"?*Tis the first round of the struggle of the East against the West, Of the fearful war of races-for the White Man could not rest. Hold them, Ivan! Staggering bravely underneath your gloomy sky; Hold them, Ivan! We shall want you pretty badly by-and-by. Fighting for the Indian Empire, when the British pay their debt; Never Britain watched for Blucher as she'll watch for Ivan yet! It means all ts young Australia-it means life or death to us, For the vanguard of the White Man is the vanguard of the Russ!"
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(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 147, 17 April 1942, Page 4
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