WAR COUNCIL
FORMATION TO PROCEED. INVITATION TO OPPOSITION. STILL OPEN, SAYS PREMIER. (Per Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Prime Minister announced in an interview to-day that the Government would proceed with the formation of a War Council. He added that invitations to jojn the Council were being issued to thoroughly representative organisations bn the lines ho bad already indicated. A number of unsolicited iccominendations concerning personnel had already been received from outside.
In setting up the War Council the invitation which he had extended to tha Opposition to appoint three members was still open. Discussing the question of a War Cabinet, Mr Fraser explained that tins had been in existence since the war started in the form of a committee of the Cabinet which dealt with war questions in consultation with the heads of the General Staff. This system would continue to operate.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 211, 14 June 1940, Page 6
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