The Archive · 1940

Australian Premier Hits Nazi Move

"This Grim Piece of Realistic Savagery"

Sydney, Apr. 9.

"This grim piece of realistic savagery will have hardened Australia's dete: mination to see the war through, declared Mr. R. G. Menzies, Australian Prime Minister, in a statement today on the German invasion of Norway end Sweden.

"Viewing the picture as a whole," he added, "it may turn out as in other instances. Germany has purchased a small immediate gain at the price of growing, hardening antagonism throughout the civilized world."—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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