Mr Menzies Issues Challenge: AntiCommunist Bill
CANBERRA, September 28.—The Prime Minister (Mr Menzies) reintroduced in the House of Representatives today the Communist Party Dissolution Bill in. the form in which it last left the House and before the Senate inserted its amendments. Mr Menzies announced the application of the guillotine. The House approved a time-table providing that the bill must be passed by 11 p.m. next Tuesday. Mr Menzies challenged the Opposition to force an election on the bill.
He .said: “Let us vote on it, let the Senate vote on it, and let us see what the Australian people have to say about it.
“At a time when men from Australia are fighting and dying in a war of aggressive Communism, should we be so spineless as to leave the Communist agent at home free to do his work?
“If this bill errs at all it is on the side of lack of severity.” The Deputy-Leader of the Opposition (Dr 11. V. Evatt) said that the Labour Party had tried to give fair effect to the mandate received, by the Menzies Government at the elections, but also demanded that, in the machinery of the bill, safeguards of justice should be retained.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 29 September 1950, Page 6
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