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SIR: Thanks are due to Peter Ryan (July-August 2002) for defending John Curtin against David Day's slur that he was afraid of flying. Both Curtin and Menzies as wartime prime ministers had to put their lives on the line by flying overseas, when even domestic air travel was risky.
As prime minister in early 1941 Menzies risked his life flying to London in a slow, unescorted Vickers Valencia. In April 1941 he endured the heaviest German air raid on London, remaining in his hotel rather than seeking a deep air raid shelter. Yet revisionist historians continue to depict his mission to assert Australian ...
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