PEOPLE’S MOVEMENT
APPEAL FOR POSTPONEMENT OF ELECTIONS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. In a statement today, Mr James Crisp, Dominion chairman of the People’s Movement, pleads for unity and the concentration of everything we have on the war. Following up its campaign of last year, the movement will ask national leaders to broaden the representation and power of the War Cabinet, to concentrate everything upon the war, to postpone general elections until the main issues before the world are decided and to seek an understanding with one another for the sake of national unity even if they desire to retain their individuality of political principles. A general election might be the rock upon which the ship of battle in this part of the world might founder, Mr Crisp said. It was not right to risk that calamity. Let the slogan be a united people, with a united purpose and to perdition with anything else. “We appeal to the people to support this cry,” he added. “Let us go to it and demand the postponement of elections.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 May 1942, Page 4
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177PEOPLE’S MOVEMENT Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 May 1942, Page 4
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