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EDGE OF TURMOIL

POLITICS IN AUSTRALIA

DISSENSION OVER PREMIER'S

LONDON VISIT.

POSITION OF BOTH LEADERS

AT STAKE,

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright SYDNEY, August 18.

“Australia stands on the edge of political turmoil, with Mr Menzies’ proposed trip to London as the storm centre," says tonight’s “Sun.'’ It adds. “The situation is loaded with .unpleasant possibilities for the Prime Minister. the Opposition leader. Mr Curtin, and the Menzies Government. Fellow Ministers have told their leader that a rejection by Parliament on Wednesday of his London visit will be regarded' as a major defeat for the Government and will be a terrific blow to its prestige. “The Labour members of the War Council, Messrs Ford, Beasley and Evatt. continue fiYm in their stand that Mr Menzies should not receive Labour’s approval to his leaving Australia. Mr Curtin's leadership will most assuredly be at stake if he persists in supporting Mr Menzies' departure and it will also afford encouragement to those members of his party who consider that he is not sufficiently virile and who may try to displace him in the event of Labour being called upon the form a Government."

Sir Earle Page yesterday declared that if Parliament rejected the proposal it would cause a political crisis and an election, and he condemned wrangling by the Labourites. Mr Evatt returned to the picture today and said that Sir Earle Page’s statement was so party political, in spirit and object that he might have seme difficulty in explaining his part in “the political manoeuvre." Nor would it be Sir Earle Page's task to determine whether or not there should be an election. There was no reason whatever why an alternative Government should not be created. Mr Evatt accused the Government of having exaggerated the dangers of war in the Far East. Mr Menzies in Melbourne replied to Mr Evatt. He denied the allegations cf political manoeuvring and said that the proposal that he should go to London* was initiated by his Ministerial colleagues for reasons with which Mr Curtin was fully acquainted, as he was also with the gravity of the position in the Far East.

MENZIES TO BROADCAST

AFTER MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.

(Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.)SYDNEY. This Day.

Mr Menzies will make a'broadcast to the nation tomorrow night, after he has given Parliament a survey of the international position, particularly as it affects the Pacific.

An emergency meeting of Parliament. called by Cabinet, to consider the situation in the Far East and the proposal that Mr Menzies should go to London, will begin tomorrow. For most of the day Parliament will sit in camera, so that Mr Menzies may give full details of reports received from London, Washington and Tokio and an account of naval, military and air dispositions in the Far East and the Pacific.

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19410819.2.60

Bibliographic details
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1941, Page 6

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465

EDGE OF TURMOIL Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1941, Page 6

EDGE OF TURMOIL Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1941, Page 6

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