Concerning Mr. Bryson
p. 54 · Read in the full issue
Letter to the Editor THIS letter may be a little belated by the time it reaches you: but I should like to pen a few words of reply to a speech by Mr. Bryson, of Australia’s Labour Party, in support of Mr. Ward’s “Papua-New Guinea Provisional Admin istration Bill” on July 19, 1945, wherein he stated: “When the Japanese invaded New Guinea, the White Settlers left as quickly as they could.”
Mr. Bryson, your political bleating is somewhat in error. Some of us left Papua and New Guihea before the Japs even entered the war.
What does Moresby Gofton (shot down in Norway in mid-May, 1940, serving with the RAF) think of you or your senti ments? Or Stan Baldie. who flew with 111 Squadron Fighter Command from Croydon, during the Battle of Britain, and later was killed in India? Or Bob Munro and Ron Brookbanfc, both killed that memorable night in May, 1942, during the RAF’s first 1,000-Bomber-Raid on Cologne? Or Terry McKenna, whose body was washed ashore on Denmark?
Or Tommy Rosser, who hid in Stalag