NOT CONTEMPLATED
EARLY ELECTION
DENIAL BY AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER
A NOISY MEETING : (B.v Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Received Jul}' 13. 1.40 p.m.) PERTH. July 12. The Prime Minister, Mr. R. G. Menzies, issued a statement denying that lie is contemplating an early Federal Election. He said he had not discussed the question with other Ministers. Interjectors carrying placards bearing the inscription "Refuse to Sign the National Register," and. other unruly persons, heckled. Mr. Menzies at a public meeting last night. The chairman, the Lord Mayor, Mr. Harper, was forced to. call upon the police to remove the more persistent interjectors. During his speech Mr. Menzies commented on Herr Hitler's work "in bringing Germany into a comparative state of solvency from bankruptcy."] Immediately a woman rose and attacked the Prime Minister for his "un-1 Australian attitude in admiring thej work of a man whom any sensible j person regarded as a maniac." i
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 11, 13 July 1939, Page 10
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150NOT CONTEMPLATED Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 11, 13 July 1939, Page 10
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