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Serves twelve months' articles of clerkship with a solicitor in a small
conveyancing practice."Menzies himself did not enlist [for war service], a fact of which he was cruelly reminded throughout his life… an internal family conference decided that with two brothers in the AIF, Menzies' duty was to stay at home to look after and partly support his parents. His only sister, having eloped with a soldier of whom her parents disapproved, could not be relied on for ordinary familial duties. At the same time, Menzies' enthusiastic public and private support for conscription had to encompass the virtual certainty that if conscription was brought in, he himself would have been one of the first drafted." |
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February: Billy Hughes leads his newly formed Nationalist Party to election
victory and is returned as Prime Minister. This is despite his expulsion
from the Labor Party in November 1916 over the issue of conscription when
pro-conscriptionist Hughes decided to abandon the anti-conscriptionists
in the Labor Party and try to govern with opposition support. The new
Ministry is a coalition of National, Labor and Liberal. A second referendum
to endorse a new scheme of compulsory military service for single men
aged 20 to 44 is defeated by a larger majority than the first held in
October 1916. Daylight saving
is introduced to save fuel resources. Holden Brothers
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March Revolution in Russia: Tsar Nicholas abdicates, lacking the determination
or support to contest the issues. In July of 1918 he and his family are
murdered by the Bolsheviks. USA declares
war on Germany. October Revolution
in Russia: The Bolsheviks overthrow the provisional government - Lenin
becomes Chief Commissar and Trotsky Commissar for Foreign Affairs. Balfour Declaration:
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