THE WAR CABINET
Position Of Leader Of The Opposition COMMENT BY MR. FRASER Making brief reference to the War Cabinet in a statement last night the Prime Minister, Mr. Fraser, said: — “It is obvious that if the War Cabinet is to continue as a national institution for the purpose of directing the nation’s war effort, both the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition must be members of it, otherwise it fails as a united, national, effective, administrative body, or even as evidence of that national unity in the war effort which all desire.”
In July, the Government invited the Opposition to participate in the formation of a War Cabinet to control and direct the country’s war effort, Mr. Fraser said. The War Cabinet consisting of the Minister of Finance, Mr. Nash; the Minister of Defence, Mr. Jones; the then Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Hamilton; Mr. Coates and himself, had been duly appointed, and had done most valuable work iu close co-operation with the members of the Ministry.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 81, 30 December 1940, Page 6
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