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Old 04-09-2007, 02:30 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Australia's High Commission in London displays Rat of Tobruk memorabilia

'Rat of Tobruk' memorabilia on display | NEWS.com.au
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Great story.

Good to see the memorabilia did not end up on the rubbish tip like much did over the years.
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(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.)

What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site:
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Old 04-09-2007, 12:26 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Pity I cant get time off to go down and see the exibtion
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