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625. “The old unquestioning confidence” R. Hunt and J. Harrison (eds.), The District Officer in India, 1930–47, London 1980, p. 175.
626. “in their leisure time they will talk” BNA WO203/1194.
627. “Exactly what purposes it served” Aldiss, op. cit., p. 180.
628. “I realised that I had longed” ibid., p. 187.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN • AUSTRALIANS: “BLUDGING” AND “MOPPING UP”
629. “They said they were all too tired” G. R. Matthews diaries AWM PR87/79.
630. “deterioration in the morale” Australian Archives Victoria: MP72/1, File 193/1/657.
631. “Many…laborers refused to work” Stauffer, The U.S. Army in WWII, p. 51.
632. “was directly obstructing the war effort” ibid., p. 115.
633. “apathy amongst large sections” Lacey to Curtin 14.1.43, cited Thorne, Allies, p. 304.
634. “The Department may be surprised” ibid., p. 237.
635. “pulling right out of the war” Sydney Morning Herald, 8.9.44.
636. “civil war or very near it” Sydney Daily Telegraph, 30.10.44.
637. “The Australian government tried” Paul Hasluck, The Government and the People, 1942–45, Australian War Memorial, Canberra 1970, p. 630.
638. “The mainspring of Curtin’s leadership” ibid., p. 436.
639. “The enemy garrisons which” To Marshall 9.8.44, quoted Clayton James, op. cit., p. 464.
640. “American public opinion” Melbourne Herald, 10.1.45.
641. “a rather unpleasant” Tedder letter to wife 10.5.41, Tedder Papers.
642. “not an impressive” Alanbrooke diaries, op. cit., p. 544.
643. “On his head descended” Gavin Long, The Final Campaigns, AWM, p. 586.
644. “The best that can be said” D. M. Horner, Blamey: The Commander-in-Chief, Allen & Unwin 1998, passim.
645. “We are all just about had” Diary AWM PR89/190.
646. “A feeling of terrible sadness” War in the Shadows: Bougainville, 1944–45, AWM 1996, p. 86.
647. “The political and grand strategic” Johnston, op. cit., p. 95.
648. “capable of anything” AWM 3DRL 3825 John Butler letter to wife from New Guinea.
649. “When you get into action” Quoted Johnston, op. cit., p. 81. 343 “75 of us refused to go into action” ibid., p. 236.
650. “I happen to entertain” Commonwealth Debates Vol. 181, p. 1126.
651. “In both Australian and Japanese history” Long, op. cit., p. 386.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN • CAPTIVITY AND SLAVERY
652. “American PWs appeared to be” LHA POW reports microfilm 588.
653. “There was evidence” BNA 16.1.45 WO203/5609.
654. “Their liberators were stunned” BNA WO203/5620.
655. “I dared not look into their eyes” Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper, Forgotten Armies, Penguin 2004, pp. 406–7.
656. “In the beginning” AI Idlett.
657. “The Burma railway was a very difficult” AI Renichi Sugano.
658. “men of the arrogant nation” Hino’s 1942 book Batan Hanto Kojoki, cited Haruko Taya Cook, Voices from the Front: Japanese War Literature, 1937–45, unpublished MA thesis, University of California, Berkeley 1984, pp. 59–60, quoted Dower, Japan in War and Peace.
659. “There is no doubt that many men just” Romney Papers, op. cit., IWM.
660. “The most junior soldier felt” Stephen Abbott, And My War Is Done, Pentland 1991, p. 37.
661. “I saw discipline go down” AI Rosen.
662. “Major D—was about as useful” IWM Young MS 75/124/1.
663. “the white Jap” Hank Nelson, Australians Under Nippon, ABC 1985, p. 60.
664. “I know you’ve been terribly ill” Abbott, op. cit., p. 51.
665. “seems to accept everything” IWM Romney Papers, op. cit.
666. “Flying Officer Erroll Shearn” IWM Shearn Papers 92/36/1.
667. “You are signing away” Coubrough, Memoirs of a Perpetual Second Lieutenant, Wilton 1995, p. 90.
668. “During the early months” BNA WO203/3105.
669. “The grandiose picture he draws” IWM Shearn MS IWM 92/36/1.
670. “The Dutch doctors I met” IWM Lyon MS 90/10/1.
671. “There was no love lost” AI Idlett.
672. “There was a weeding-out” AI Paul Reuter.
673. “My life was a nonentity” AI Andrew Cunningham.
674. “wanted to survive” AI Idlett, loc. cit.
675. “I knew some that would not eat rice” ibid.
676. “Australian Snow Peat saw” Nelson, op. cit., p. 42.
677. “I was prepared to eat anything” AI Ashwell.