NATIONAL GOVERNMENT
PROPOSAL IN AUSTRALIA REJECTED BY LABOUR LEADER [U.P.A. —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] CANBERRA, 30th July. According to the “Sun” representative, the Federal Opposition leader, Mr Curtin, slammed the door against the Prime Minister’s offer to form a National Government with five or six seats for Labour. Mr Curtin in a statement said: “The complete lack of cohesion in the present Federal Ministry makes talk of a National Government a sheer absurdity. The Prime Minister’s offer has obviously been made for the purpose of avoiding an election. The Labour Party fully recognises Mr Menzies’ responsibilities, and we are prepared to give him the maximum constructive support, but he has around him colleagues and associates whose attitude is more destructive of national unity than anything the Opposition has said or could say or would say.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 31 July 1940, Page 3
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