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...make things tougher for him, the crisis caught big, cagey "Bob" Menzies in London, where he had been conferring with Winston Churchill (and reportedly criticizing sharply British strategy in the Balkans and Africa). Deputizing for him in Australia was Treasurer Arthur William Fadden, a 45-year-old Queensland accountant whose political stock has been rapidly rising while Menzies has been in Britain...
Displaying beautiful teamwork halfway round the world, Messrs. Menzies and Fadden did what they could to simmer the crisis down. Mr. Menzies dictated and Mr. Fadden seconded a put-up-or-shut-up appeal to the Laborites to join up in the National Government. Then the Prime Minister saw to it that Australian Lieut. General Sir Thomas Albert Blarney was quickly upped to second-in-command in the Middle East under General Sir Archibald Wavell...
...radio talk to Australia, Bob Menzies defended the sending of Australian troops to Greece. At home Acting Prime Minister Fadden got together with other War Government heads, announced a special session of Parliament for May 7. Unconfirmed at week's end were reports that Prime Minister Menzies would grab the first plane back to Australia...
...Stage. At almost the same moment The Netherlands East Indies and Australia got their wind up. From Batavia orders went out for Dutch ships to put into the nearest friendly port; two of them rushed to Manila and dropped anchor. In Australia Acting Prime Minister Arthur William Fadden called a meeting of the Advisory War Council and then issued a warning to the country: "The war has moved into a new stage of the utmost gravity...
...scares easily. He looks and sounds a little like Wendell Willkie. Since 1936 he has risen to, and ably handled, the Treasury portfolio. When Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies decided to visit Australian forces in Egypt and Palestine last month Fadden was agreed on as a man both major parties could trust...