During World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered Australian troops to defend Britain’s colonial interests. Australian leader John Curtin had other ideas.
– which will culminate in him making an address at the Anzac Day Dawn Service at Isurava on Thursday morning – is not just a salute to the Diggers of Kokoda and that whole campaign, but also to one of his political heroes.
And therein, friends, lies an inspirational story of political leadership that really does deserve to be revered by all Australians, and highlighted in this century by his current successor in the Lodge. While Paul Keating famously thought Curtin “a plodder” Albanese disagrees – and he’s right. In early 1942, Curtin cabled his wife Elsie in Perth that “The war goes very badly and I have a cable fight with Churchill almost daily. He has been in Africa and India and they count before Australia and New Zealand.”
Curtin, call him crazy, wanted Australia’s finest sons to return to Australia. In an effort to convince Curtin, Churchill even engaged the support of US president Franklin D. Roosevelt, who sent cables to the Australian leader agreeing with the British prime minister’s line of reasoning. – told Churchill that he would endeavour to change Curtin’s mind, and indeed tried to do so.
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