Menzies Speaks On Communism (1954)
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Australian Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies speaks on Communism.
Canberra, Australia.
M/S of Menzies seated at desk, speaking about the threat of Communism to Australia. He talks of Australia being British and of the association between Britain and the United States being vital to the common defence. He says that every means will be taken to prevent the spread of Communism into the Commonwealth.
M/S of Menzies alighting from car and entering building. L/S of suburbs of town (possibly Canberra). L/S of Government Building, Canberra.
FILM ID:2486.08
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I think along with Howard he was the most destructive PM we ever had.
I attached myself to this party, and not to one of the great political parties where my prospects would have been better because none of the other parties understood or even recognized the decisive and fundamental problem. For us, it was a filthy crime against the German people, a stab in the back of the German nation. The middle class could not take up arms against it because the middle class did not understand the whole revolution. It was necessary to start a new struggle and to incite against the Marxist despoilers of the people who did not even belong to the German race - which is where the Marxist problem is linked with the race problem, forming one of the most difficult and profound questions of our time… Adolf Hitler 1924
"We might have called ourselves the Liberal Party. We chose to call ourselves the National Socialists. We are not internationalists. Our socialism is national. We demand the fulfilment of the just claims of the productive classes by the state on the basis of race solidarity. To us state and race are one." Adolf Hitler 1923
I've lived in Australia for 38 of my 42 years on this planet, and I've honestly never met or talked to anyone who would proudly quote that guy in the way you did.
The people I have met came from many different cultures and racial backgrounds. And they were friendly, polite, hospitable, welcoming and understanding of cultural, religious or linguistic differences, and typically greeted me with a "g'day" or "hello/hi".
You are not us. Perhaps you should f off to a some miserable little eurohole that still believes in the power of such radicalism. We have no need or use for you here.
Oh come on, Robert Menzies was hardly as bad as all that!
@@Dane2177 Robert Menzies defended White Australia, saying Australia ought to have a homogeneous population. Both he and Hitler had views on race that were not dissimilar, that it does matter, and that it is important.
@@psychotic.reaction I grant you that Menzies' views on both race and communism are important to think about. As I understand it, Menzies had many disgraceful things to say, pre-WW2, on Hitler and Nazi Germany. He was, like many leaders in the West at the time, generally in favour of appeasement.
Still, in this speech he does not link race and communism. Instead he speaks of maintaining democratic freedom. In this way he was not at all like Hitler. Hence my comment.
More British than the British.
Eisenhower couldnt obtain
Support from other countries
For intervention in indochina
As they had in korea!
If you look though my family's history.. the teelefs that were sent to Australia have made so very much of themselves. Forget all manner of none importance. Because that's what it is.. not important. You and I both know that. I would lay down my life for the Australian people if it came to it..and those passionate men of new Zealand. And Canada. That's a promise
Thanks mate
Ummm… we’ll call you.
Australia is British ❤🇦🇺🇬🇧
We are our own people.
@@latenightlogic
No mate, you are Southern hemisphere British hooligans: it's on your flag.
@@MrBahjatt lol sure mate
@@latenightlogic
Australia is British mate, just suck it up.
Language: English (most similar to cockney)
Monarch: King Charles III of Australia
Flag: Union Staff on the corner (Britain at night)
People's origins: Majority originally from Great Britain and Ireland and an Aboriginal minority.
@@MrBahjatt Haha keep living your life by that anachronism mate
Why does he have a British accent? But those days anyway Aussies were under British rule so it makes sense for a brummie accent…
It's not a Brummie accent! It's an Australian accent.
i'm guessing because of the accents evolution maybe? I can sort of hear both .
Because he strove to be as British as possible, he saw British civilisation as the pinnacle of human history and he believed that it was the duty of Australia to maintain that civilisation in as close a form as possible
He doesn’t speak with ‘a British accent’,..which means nought, anyway. Which one ?…He speaks with an accent that was run of the mill for well-off, well-born, ‘ big end of town ‘ graduates of the time.
Menzies the coward.
How so?
Communist apologist, I must not be too wrong to assume you believe Stalin to be the ideal
DH
@@sairaplaxs632Churchill was a an arch apologist a ass licker of his mate Stalin.😒