FEDERAL PREMIER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 August 1941, Page 5

FEDERAL PREMIER

ASKED TO GO AGAIN TO LONDON NO INSUPERABLE DIFFICULTIES IN WAY. PARLIAMENT TO MEET NEXT WEEK. LONDON, August 12. At today’s meeting of the Fed- ' eral Cabinet, the Australian Prime Minister, Mr Menzies, stated that the Federal Parliament would meet on August 20. when a statement would be made on the Far East situation. Mr Menzies also announced that Cabinet had unanimously requested him to make another visit to London. He said that there might be difficulties in the way ot his going or of someone going in his stead, but they would not be insuperable. Australia's war effort was now so organised that no delay could result from the absence of any one man.

LOYAL SERVICE

DUTY OF ALL AUSTRALIANS

MR CURTIN'S DECLARATION

MELBOURNE, August 12.

“No matter who we are or what we are, today Australia is entitled to ask for loyal and devoted service from its- sons,” declared the leader of the Federal Opposition, Mr Curtin, in the course of a statement after a. private conference with the Prime Minister, Mr Menzies, today. "The fact is," he added, "that we have been at war nearly two years, and the scene moves increasingly closer to our territory. Men not fighting or training to fight can work. We have to do everything humanly possible to organise our fighting forces and dispose them in the right place.”