THE WAR POLICY

Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21039, 15 February 1940, Page 8

THE WAR POLICY

SUPPORT OF COMMONWEALTH SWIFT ELECTION CAMPAIGN ! (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyriglit) MELBOURNE, Feb. 14 ; The dissolution of Parliament is ; Victorian political history in that 1 the Government is not threatened on the floor of Parliament, where its working majority with the support |of the Labour Party was never enj dangered. Only four, at the most, of the mem- . bers of the Parliamentary Country Party are supporters of the coterie ' in the party’s central council which demanded the right to dominate the actions of the Ministry. With the election on March 16 the campaign will be swift. The Premier : will give a policy speech at Bendigo on February 26. Mr Dunstan said today that his war policy would be full support of the Commonwealth Government’s efforts. Although Mr Dunstan has not yet said so, the main issue will be the Government’s right to resist control by organisations outside Parliament. Mr Dunstan has been in office nearly five years. A large section of the central council of the Country Party is strongly behind Mr Dunstan, and deplores the breach caused by persons within the party ranks. Labour is not likely to oppose any of the sitting Country Party members. The United Australia Party regards the election as entirely unnecessary. Its leader, Sir Stanley Argle, said the use of the Parliamentary machine to settle an internal faction squable was unpardonable.