Cablegram 34 LONDON, 25 March 1938
Please let the Prime Minister know the details of the New Australian Defence programme announced in his broadcast on 24th March [1] have been read with great interest here. We should like him and his colleagues to know our warm appreciation of this most timely effort.
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1 For details of the Australian Government’s 43 million defence program see P. Hasluck, The Government and the People, 1939-41 (Canberra, 1952), pp. 102-3.
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