AFTER THE WAR
LONDON GOSSIP STORY ABOUT FREYBERG. MAY TURN TO BRITISH POLITICS (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, December 29. The “Evening Standard's” gossip writer- says that when the war is over and General Freyberg is free from service duties, he will join battle in another field and will turn to British politics. General Freyberg is the prospective Conservative candidate for the Spelthorne division of Middlesex. “I am told he intends to enter Parliament as soon as possible after the war. The present member for Spelthorne in Sir Reginald Blaker, who told me: ‘I am just carrying on till) Freyberg can take over. He keeps in constant touch with the constituency. When I am free I propose to return to the bar.’ “General Freyberg was adopted as the prospective candidate in 1938. Spelthorne has been .a safe Conservative seat. Sir Reginald Blaker at the last general election scored a 16,196 majority over his Socialise opponent.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 December 1943, Page 2
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154AFTER THE WAR Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 December 1943, Page 2
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