South West Pacific (1943)

John Nugent Hayward: The Factory Manager

Quotes 

• The Factory Manager : Disaster put us where we are. The disaster of Dunkirk, when Britain stood like one small unyielding rock in a wild ocean. The rest of the world thought Britain was licked. We knew she'd only just started to fight. We knew it, because we're British too! Dunkirk week. The week Australians stormed the recruiting offices. The week industrial production commenced its leap upward. The week we stripped ourselves of arms and started to send the old lady all we had, and wished to God we could make it a hundred times more. It's a funny thing, that. We're a free, completely independent people, with no ties to England at all, save those of blood. But they happen to be the strongest ties in the world.