NATIONAL INTEREST: Australian appeasers, past and present*

Long ago I bought my first house. The walls had kalsomine paint which hadn’t been touched for over 50 years. Pulling up some ancient lino, I found a copy of the West Australian, Perth’s daily newspaper, from September 1939. One article caught my eye. It concerned a German freighter that was in danger of being impounded. Couldn’t something be done to help the poor crew, who stood to be interned, or the poor ship-owners, who would lose their ship? This silly little tiff over Pol…

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