THE WAR CABINET
OPPOSITION LEADER
"MUST BE A MEMBER"
If the War Cabinet was to be % united, national, effective administrative body, both the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition must be members, the Prime Minister (Mr. Fraser) stated last night.
"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 Prima 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," Mr. Fraser said.
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 cf Finance (Mr. Nash), the Minister of Defence (Mr. Jones), the then Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Hamilton), Mr. Coates, and himsslf, had been duly appointed, and had done most valuable work in close co-operation with the members of the Ministry.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 156, 30 December 1940, Page 6
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