NOT RESIGNING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 March 1940, Page 5

NOT RESIGNING

ON ACCOUNT OF BYELECTION DEFEAT INTENTIONS OF MR MENZIES. ONE WAR AT A TIME ENOUGH. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. MELBOURNE, March 5. Demands from Labour and Country members that lie resign following I lie Corio byelection were referred to by the Prime Minister, Mr Menzies, in a, speech to a farmers ’ convention at Wangaratta today, when he gave a clear indication that, lie has no intention of resigning.

Mr Menzies said he was “far too busy in the great job of winning the war to listen to small boys throwing stones on the roof.” There was still a disposition by too many people whose loyalty was unquestioned not to realise that there was a war on. Many still went about their normal business and to the races and cricket. They could do so in comfort because the seas of the world were ruled by the British Navy. Stating that he would go on working in Australia till the people said they no longer wanted him, Mr Menzies added: ■’Tifl then, let us have one war at a time. Let us not dissipate our energies, but go forward in a united effort to win the war.”