WAR ELECTION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 March 1940, Page 7

WAR ELECTION

HEAVY NOMINATIONS

IN CANADA

THREE & FOUR-CORNERED CONTESTS.

BATTLE BETWEEN TWO MAIN PARTIES.

By Telegraph—Press Associatlonr-Copyright. OTTAWA, March 10. Election nominations now total nearly 600. There. will be three-cornered and tourcornered contests for the majority of seals. The Liberals (now in office) are still heavily favoured and are likely to Im returned with the present lit) majority reduced to I rom 10 40.

Leftist parties, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ™d the New Democracy, formerly Social Credit members, are not important outside the four Western Provinces. The battle will be between Liberals and Conse - vatives the latter of whom are mostly labelling themselves National Government candidates because Dr Manton (Conservative leader) is committed to the formation of a Ministry of the best brains regardless of paity. b The Literal, holding 179 • * « » defending the widest front and aie Jying to confine the issue to the wai effort Conservatives arc maintain ing the vigorous direction of the wai £ possible ’only by representative national government. o f Despite Dr Manton s his anti-conscription pledge, tional Government project has enab ed SS io revive th<■ hrwev The French Canada and orn leftist movement might be formtdnhle if the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and the New Democracy healed their fued but tne PCF is advocating Socialism and favouring draslic "X XaTXvTih'XosrSicn. The Ltpci.u largest campaign =■SJMS to°“he Co-operative Commonwealth FederatThe Liberals are confide * ; cXrva 2 Uve Ontario, in which there are 82 L e be S ral iS p a re£ Hepburn’s, Llb Uv toward Mr Mackenzie King, S&Sfi- c ’“ da ’ !c haloing the Conservatives. S' Prime Minister, Mr Mackenzie King ■ and the Minister of Finance, Colonel Ralston, broadcast in answe io charges by the Opposition of Gov ernment laxity in the_war effort on which Dr Manion is basing his elec Ralston said the military effort had culminated in an army of 70,000. a navy of 6000 and an an fore of 8000. He added that war industries had undergone a tenfold expansion.