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Daly Waters was Australia's first international airfield. The airfield was a centre for the London to Sydney air race of 1926 and was a refuelling stop for early Qantas
flights to Singapore
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The airfield was a waypoint on the "Brereton Route" the early months of 1942 during World War II
for operations between Australia and Java
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"How to Save Bosnia," The World and I, July 1994, by Michael Johns. "Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror."
"Seventy Years of Evil: Soviet Crimes from Lenin to Gorbachev," Policy Review|Policy Review, Fall 1987, by Michael Johns. "No chronology of Soviet atrocities can convey the crushing of the human spirit under Lenin and his successors. But the retelling of 70 years of grisly facts leaves little doubt that what we face today in Soviet communism is, indeed, an 'evil empire.'"
"Seventy Years of Evil: Soviet Crimes from Lenin to Gorbachev," Policy Review|Policy Review, Fall 1987, by Michael Johns. "Up against the ropes in the Iran-Contra affair, Ronald Reagan should have come out swinging, announcing clearly that this government carries itself in the tradition of the Marquis de Lafayette, that freedom fighters will no longer be left to die in the jungle, like Brigade 2506 at the Bay of Pigs."
"Peace in Our Time: The Spirit of Munich Lives On," Policy Review|Policy Review, Summer 1987, by Michael Johns. "The time has come to stop talking about the lessons of Vietnam, and to start talking about the lessons of Afghanistan."