When bombed in England bluff Bob Menzies
Gave way to paranoiac frenzies;
And other news like this to gladden
The unbombed soul of Artie Fadden…
This fragment by the anarchist poet Oliver Somerville conveys something of the contemptuous attitude of the defeatist Left to Prime Minister Menzies’s doomed mission to wartime England in 1941 to plead for the strengthening of Singapore.
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