WAR CABINET
SHOULD INCLUDE LEADER OF OPPOSITION. STATEMENT BY PREMIER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Making brief reference to the War Cabinet in a statement last night toe Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, said:—“It is obvious that if the War Cabinet is to continue as a national institution for the purpose of directing the nation’s war effort, both the Prime Minister and toe Leader of the Opposition must be members of it. otherwise it fails as a united, national, effective, administrative body, or even as evidence of that national unity in. the war effort which all desire." In July, the Government invited the Opposition to participate in toe formation of a War Cabinet to control. and direct the country's war effort. Mr Fraser said. The War Cabinet consisting of the Minister of Finance. Mr Nash; the Minister of Defence, Mr Jones; the then Leader of the Opposition, Mr Hamilton; Mr Coates and himself, had been duly appointed, and had done most valuable work in close cooperation with the members of the Ministry.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1940, Page 4
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