FEDERAL ELECTION.
WILLING TO CONFER. LEADERS OF OTHER [PARTIES United Press Association.— Copyright I (Received This Day, 11.40 a.m.) SIYDNEY, This Day. Mr Cameron, Leader of the Cloiuntry Party, and Mr Beasley, leader of the Non-Communist Labour Party, said they would accept A{r Menzies’ invitation to a conference to discuss the possibility of forming a national government. Mr Cameron declared that the Government had to necognise that it had been defeated at the general election.” It is no use beating about the bush. Mo are faced with a stalemate in the House of Representatives), and we went to the country with a majority of 10.” Mr Curtin, in Perth, said he would attend the conference and added tluV if there is to be a sinking of political principles, every party must sink them.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 304, 1 October 1940, Page 6
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