ELECTION PLANS

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 95, 16 January 1943, Page 5

ELECTION PLANS

Mr. Curtin’s Denunciation (By Teh graph.—Press Assn—Copyright.* (Special Australian Correspondent.)

SYDNEY, January 15. Election preparations which it is alleged are being made by the anti-La-bour forces have been denounced by the Australian Prime Minister, Mr. Curtin. • Denying that the Labour Party desired an election before the normal expiry of the Federal Government’s term next September, Mr. Curtin declared that money spent in political propaganda could have been better invested in war loans. While a film campaign, together with the distribution of dodgers, is being run in one State, Opposition quarters deny the expenditure of any large sums. Meantime, it is reported that all parties are forming campaign committees in many electorates.

The Leader of the United Australia Party, Mr. Hughes, urging the need for a National Government, has suggested that ‘’intrigues within the Tanks of his own party” are the main reason for Mr. Curtin’s refusal to pay a widely-advocated visit to Washington to press for increased war .supplies for the South-west Pacific. Mr. Hughes declared that so far as he was concerned nothing would be done by the Opposition to disturb the Government during the absence of Mr. Curtin on a mission which he strongly recommended.