– from the account of the May Day march in Sydney: Help to oust this war crazy government on May 29 2 by selling more copies of the pamphlet “THE H-BOMB, JAPANESE REARMAMENT AND YOU.” The second-earliest occurrences of the phrase that I have found are from the Tribune (Sydney, New South Wales) of Wednesday 5 th May 1954: One of the placards in Room 9 says “Ban the A-Bomb- One Flash and You’re Ash.”Īnother states that Hitler began by banning Communists. In Room 9 of the Communist-dominated Trades Hall are stacks of Communist propaganda. Official Labour organisers have been granted a permit for the march, but the Communist-controlled Trades Hall Council has been organising militant unions. Police reinforcements will make sure that to-morrow’s May Day march in Brisbane will be orderly. The earliest occurrence of one flash and you’re ash that I have found is from The Sunday Mail (Brisbane, Queensland) of Sunday 3 rd May 1953:īig police turn-out to keep order for march also ‘better red than dead’ – ‘better dead than red’. The Australian rhyming phrase one flash and you’re ash is a slogan used by opponents of nuclear weapons-cf.
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