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Interview of Harry Krantz, 28 October 1996
Repository
John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library
Reference
JCPML00186/1
Date Range
1996
Description

Oral history recording, 28 October 1996
Interviewee: Harry Krantz
Interviewer: John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library

Harry Krantz recounts hearing Curtin speak in Adelaide in support of the Labor candidate in the 1941 by-election for the South Australian State seat Boothby and meeting Curtin on the tram journey home after the meeting. Mr Krantz recalls how troops in Darwin circa 1942 were impressed by Curtin as a man with no pretensions or airs after viewing a Department of Information film and of seeing Curtin again at an all unions conference held at Trades Hall Melbourne in 1943.

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