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Thankless indeed is the job that Fadden inherited. Menzies, who came to power in 1939 as head of the United Australia Party, was forced early in 1940 to form a coalition with the United Country Party to save his Government. Last autumn the coalition's slight majority was cut almost to nothing. Emerging from a set of by-elections in September, the Labor parties, headed by Menzies' personal friend and political enemy, mild, gold-spectacled John Curtin, held as many seats in Parliament as the coalition...
...Lend-Leasers ran into really tough opposition: the U.S. Army and the British. The War Department generals began talking about the need for equipment for the autumn maneuvers; how Congress was expecting the maneuvers to show a big improvement in equipment. The British in Washington flatly balked. The situation was immediately laid before Prime Minister Winston Churchill...
They have four layers of bursting shells, not one. And each is thicker than a flurry of leaves from autumn trees...
...Socialist father, Marx Dormoy remained as uncompromising as his namesake, made lasting enemies among Communists and pro-Nazis. He denounced Pétain in the Chamber of Deputies after the fall of France, agitated for a return of democracy. Interned last autumn, the 52-year-old ex-minister was released this spring to live under police surveillance at Montélimar in the Rhone Valley...
...soldiers in autumn 1940 were clothed in anything available-National Guard stores, leftovers from World War I. Today they have proper uniforms. Cost...