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<p>a4701799.html</p><p>5./&nbsp; up&quot;, there&#39;ll be plenty of time to include &#39;her&#39; in our new &quot;National&quot; Navy - for I believe that &quot;Aussie&quot;&#39;ll be a Nation of her own after this War.&nbsp; Angleterre is almost mort (dead) in my idea &amp; will be a good place to be out of apr&eacute;s la guerre. . .The cargo ship building&nbsp; @ Home certainly looks &quot;fishy&quot; &amp; &quot;Little Billy&quot; seems as tho. he&#39;s in for some caustic comments re his strange action in having the job commenced in the &quot;Land of the Dollar:.&nbsp; Politics @ Home are certainly &quot;up-the-pole&quot;, &amp; there&#39;s no wonder the fellows who are taking our good gold for stirring up strife deserve a forced trip here in Khaki &amp; be made to &quot;Box-on&quot;.&nbsp; It certainly seems as tho. they believe the people as a mass are like those in decadent England - narrow minded, &quot;dopey&quot;, docile &amp; ancient in ideas &amp; ideals - but what a fallacy! . . . I thank you for the clear way in which you have put the position B4 me as regards those matters relating to politics.&nbsp; I can follow every sentence you&#39;ve penned, &amp; now see with a broader mind the trend of things which are so cleverly, or should I say, barefacedly veiled from us O.A.S.&nbsp; I am trusting sincerely that long ere the Warriors return, a &quot;full jerry&quot; will have been taken by the MP&#39;s., or better still, that <u>the peoples</u>&#39; government will once more be in power &amp; that a better Democracy will evolve from the chaos now in your midst.&nbsp; If such doesn&#39;t come about, you can almost bet on bother, &amp; someone&#39;ll suffer . . .&nbsp; Would like to add a lot more but time flies - &amp; like lightning. . .&nbsp; That was your letter of Dec<sup>r</sup>. 16<sup>th.</sup>, now let me turn to your next - that of the 25<sup>th</sup>. - Christmas Day &#39;17.&nbsp; .&nbsp; .&nbsp; You have rec<sup>d</sup>. letter N<sup>o</sup>. 98?&nbsp; Good! - &amp; well I rem<sup>r</sup>. penning it.&nbsp; All sorts of thoughts were on my mind then as the old Batt<sup>n</sup>. was up near Y --&nbsp; &amp; had been thro. that Hell-on-Earth round P.-- Wood, A -- Ridge &amp; B--.&nbsp; I knew that soon after writing your letter, I would be on my way there - hence the rambling of my sentences. . .&nbsp; Am pleased that you realise how difficult it is @ times for me to write @ all, &amp; that you won&#39;t worry when spasms occur between them - for they must occur when we are up against the enemy.&nbsp; I can well imagine how you watch the postman &amp; what your expectations are but don&#39;t think that I have 4gotten you when a mail is missed because some <u>must</u> be missed while I am @ the Front.&nbsp; The advice of the receipt of the parcel from Favant is as good</p><p>P.T.O to One [in bottom left hand margin]</p>

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