WAR CABINET
OPPOSITION LEADER'S POSITION COMMENT BY MR FRASER [United Press Association] WELLINGTON, This Day. Making brief reference to the War Cabinet in a statement last night the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser, said: “It is obvious that if the War Cabinet is to continue as a national institution for the purpose of directing the nation’s war effort, both the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition must be members of it, otherwise it fails as a united, national, effective, administrative body, or even as evidence of that national unity in the war effort which all desire.”
In July, the Government invited ths Opposition to participate in the formation of a War Cabinet to control and direct the country’s war effort, Mr Fraser said. The War Cabinet consisting of the Minister of Finance, the Hon. W. Nash; the Minister of Defence, the Hon. F. Jones; the then Leader of the Opposition, Mr Hamilton; Mr Coates and himself, had been duly appointed, and had done most valuable work in close cooperation with the members of the Ministry.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 30 December 1940, Page 4
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