RENEWED APPEAL

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 83, 8 April 1943, Page 5

RENEWED APPEAL

National Government For Australia OPPOSITION LEADER SPEAKS Rec. 2 p.m. MELBOURNE, this day. "No single party can win this war," declared the Leader of the Federal Opposition, Mr. A. W. Fadden, reiterating his appeal for an Australian National Government. Addressing a Country party conference, Mr. Fadden said that unless Labour was defeated at the forthcoming elections it would have a mandate from the people to proceed with its policy of socialisation. This would mean the ultimate destruction of the economic structure of the nation and would have disastrous effects on post-war planning. "The next elections will be the most momentous in Australia's history," added Mr. Fadden. "From the viewpoint of our future economic stability, our ability to wage a 100 per cent war in association with our allies and to place the nation 011 a sound post-war footing, there are dangerous men in the present Labour Ministry. "No matter how frequently it is denied, there is the strongest evidence that Labour is using the war to implement the planks of Labour policy, which can have no place in a nation at war. The Government has no mandate for socialisation, but at the coming elections the people will be invited to accept it as a basis for post-war reconstruction. "Private enterprise must be defended as. an essential condition of material progress. It must not be suppressed, and it must be freed from doctrinaire, socialistic restriction and regulation."