SUPPORT FOR MR MENZIES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 203, 29 July 1941, Page 5

SUPPORT FOR MR MENZIES.

POSITION STILL UNCERT AIN. (Rec. noon.) CANBERRA, July. 28. A meeting of the United Australia Party which discussed the leadership for live hours yesterday resulted in an overwhelming majority supporting Mr. Mcnzies’s leadership and desiring no change.. The Party Whip (.Mr. Guy), in making this announcement, said no motion was submitted. Thirteen members out of a possible total of 40 failed to attend.

The Sydney Morning Herald’s poll- | ticat correspondent says that at the | meeting a section of members of the party strongly criticised Mr Mcnzies, and the opinion was expressed at the end of the meeting—despite Mr Menzies’s known satisfaction at the outcome—that tilings have still been left in the air. Mr Menzies announced after the meeting that lie intended to visit I South Australia, Western Australia, I Queensland, and, if possible, before Parliament resumes on August 27, Tasmania. He said the tour had no political significance.

The Telegraph says that, despite Mr Mcnzies’s denial, observers m Canberra attach great importance to the announcement, believing it means cither that Mr Mcnzies’s advisers have impressed oil him that he should do everything possible to establish I Hitter public contact or that, having emerged from the L’.A. P. meeting without serious loss, of public prestige, he intends to ignore the rebels in his own party and continue preparing for a

general election. Close observers lean toward the first reason.