"REBEL ELEMENT"
Challenge To Leadership Of
Mr. Menzies
PARTY MEETING CALLED
SYDNEY, July 20.
The Prime Minister of Australia, Mr. R. J. Menzies, has called a meeting of the Parliamentary United Australia party for July 28 to test the chaljenge to his leadership by a minority section of the party. The demand by Mr. William C. Hutchinson, of the United Australia party, Victoria, that a meeting of the combined Government parties should be held, has been ignored by Mr. Menzies, who has taken the view that the "rebel element" is confined to the United Australia party.
Mr. Menzies is expected to fight any attempt at the meeting to depose him either from the leadership of the party or from the Prime Ministership.
Mr. Hutchinson said that Mr. Menzies' failure to call a meeting of the combined parties was incompatible with his professed dislike of party politics. Mr. Menzies knew that the majority of the members he was supposed to lead did not want him. A maximum war effort could be attained only under a leader enioving the confidence of a majority of members of the Government.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 170, 21 July 1941, Page 7
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