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| | Historical Encyclopedia of WA - WA Snapshots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | Its leaders, the Sydney writer Percy Reginald ‘Inky’ Stephensen and businessman William John Miles, were tolerated by the Right in the 1930s because of their anti-communism; they were, however, increasingly sympathetic toward the totalitarian governments of Germany, Italy and Japan as the Second World War approached. |
 | | Largely on Thomas’s evidence, Laurence Frederick Bullock, a Gallipoli veteran, and Charles Leonard Albert Williams, an insurance agent, were convicted in the WA Supreme Court on 23 June 1942 of conspiring to assist Japanese forces then seemingly poised to invade Australia. |
 | | At the same time the press learnt of the grant in the colony that had been reserved for Thomas Peel, and some newspapers used it as a means of attacking Robert Peel, then Home Secretary, for alleged favouritism to his relative. |
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