FEDERAL POLITICS.
PREMIER’S VIEW. MELBOURNE, Oct. 6. The Prime Minister (Mr R. G. Menzies), speaking at the declaration of the poll in his electorate, said that if the negotiations for a National Government failed it ivould be a calamity for Australia and a calamity to which he would resolutely refuse to contribute. “If we do not secure a National Government, this Government will continue,” he said. He claimed that the Government was still much the largest group in Parliament and. that it had won lb of the 19 Senate * seats and swept the poll 'in five (States out of six. He said the total of votes cast for the Government exceeded the total cast for all the Labour parties by 120,000. .
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 265, 7 October 1940, Page 7
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