NO WAR-TIME ELECTION
MR MACKENZIE KING IS FIRM (Rec. 8 a.m.) OTTAWA, Jan. 31. The Government does not intend ta be interrupted by a general election i» war time, said the Prime Minister. Mr Mackenzie King, in the House of Commons, He desired! to stay at his post until the war is won. He said that Parliament could carry on under the statutory limitations until June, 1945. Th» Government opposed Parliament extending its life beyond the statutory term unless circumstances were extreme. Earlier, Mr Gordon Graydon, th» Progressive Conservative leader, movea an amendment to the Address-in-Reply protesting against grave omissions fron* the Government's social security programme. In particular, Mr Graydon complained that the Government had failed to make adequate provision* for the armed forces. . : _ ■■■_. Mr Graydon said that the Gover* ment's social security proposals, which were outlined in the Governor-Generals speech, represented a death-bed repentance.
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Evening Star, Issue 25089, 2 February 1944, Page 5
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145NO WAR-TIME ELECTION Evening Star, Issue 25089, 2 February 1944, Page 5
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