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<p>a4701799.html</p><p>5./ up", there'll be plenty of time to include 'her' in our new "National" Navy - for I believe that "Aussie"'ll be a Nation of her own after this War. Angleterre is almost mort (dead) in my idea & will be a good place to be out of aprés la guerre. . .The cargo ship building @ Home certainly looks "fishy" & "Little Billy" seems as tho. he's in for some caustic comments re his strange action in having the job commenced in the "Land of the Dollar:. Politics @ Home are certainly "up-the-pole", & there's no wonder the fellows who are taking our good gold for stirring up strife deserve a forced trip here in Khaki & be made to "Box-on". It certainly seems as tho. they believe the people as a mass are like those in decadent England - narrow minded, "dopey", docile & ancient in ideas & 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. I can follow every sentence you've penned, & 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. I am trusting sincerely that long ere the Warriors return, a "full jerry" will have been taken by the MP's., or better still, that <u>the peoples</u>' government will once more be in power & that a better Democracy will evolve from the chaos now in your midst. If such doesn't come about, you can almost bet on bother, & someone'll suffer . . . Would like to add a lot more but time flies - & like lightning. . . 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 '17. . . You have rec<sup>d</sup>. letter N<sup>o</sup>. 98? Good! - & well I rem<sup>r</sup>. penning it. All sorts of thoughts were on my mind then as the old Batt<sup>n</sup>. was up near Y -- & had been thro. that Hell-on-Earth round P.-- Wood, A -- Ridge & B--. I knew that soon after writing your letter, I would be on my way there - hence the rambling of my sentences. . . Am pleased that you realise how difficult it is @ times for me to write @ all, & that you won't worry when spasms occur between them - for they must occur when we are up against the enemy. I can well imagine how you watch the postman & what your expectations are but don't think that I have 4gotten you when a mail is missed because some <u>must</u> be missed while I am @ the Front. 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>