The Treatment of ex-Soldiers in Australia The British Empire has' been built up and maintained largely by the self-sacrificing efforts of men of broad vision and wide outlook, even in the face of official opposition and nogi Many of those who blazed the trail received little thanks and less material rewards. Often have its defenders ended their days in poverty and want while those who remained at home gained fortunes at the expense of those who risked life, limb and health in the uttermost paris of the earth.
How we have kept or rather failed to keep our promises to those who fought in the war is also too well known, but perhaps the most glaring examples of this failure are ta be found in the land that of all others one would have expected to keep its word—Australia,
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