MENZIES RESIGNS FROM CABINET
Split Over Insurance
Scheme “LAST BUT WEIGHTY STRAW” By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copy right. CANBERRA, March 14. The Attorney-General, Mr. R. G. Menzies, has resigned from the Cabinet following his disagreement with a compromise reached by the Government over the national insurance scheme whereby old age and other pensioners are to be omitted.
Mr. Menzies has also resigned the deputy leadership of the Parliamentary United Australia Party. In a statement today, Mr. Menzies said that since last September he had been at variance with a majority of members of the Cabinet on several matters of moment, particularly on the question of defence preparedness, but he bad refrained from resigning in the interests of uni tv.
He described the Cabinet’s decision to repeal the provisions of the National Insurance Act relating to old age and widows’ pensions as "the last but wejghty straw.”
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 146, 16 March 1939, Page 11
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144MENZIES RESIGNS FROM CABINET Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 146, 16 March 1939, Page 11
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