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Old 09-05-2008, 11:05 AM   #96 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Kyt View Post
Leslie Morshead
Correct Kyt,

One of the more underrated Australians.

A really good read here about a General who would not be pushed around by his superiors if he thought they were wrong. Maybe this is why he was not given the accolades he should have received.

Morshead, Sir Leslie James (1889 - 1959) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
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"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
You chose dishonor and you will have war."

(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)

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