Who were Robert Menzies’ ‘forgotten people’?

Most voters are not familiar with the entire 1942 book by Robert Menzies.Forgotten People” speech.

They may have known that this was one of a series of wartime radio broadcasts made while the former Prime Minister was on the backbenchers planning his comeback, and that it was about carving out a new constituency for the non-Labour side of politics in the political atrocities at the time: the middle class is being overlooked, Menzies claims.

If we are going to talk about classes, then it is time to say something about the forgotten class – the middle class – people who are in constant danger of being crushed between the upper and lower millstones of the false war.

Robert Menzies, May 1942, Forgotten People

But beyond that famous part, They’re probably more familiar with these methods…