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...Lose or Choose. Australia's new Prime Minister would be the Liberals' Robert Gordon Menzies, 55, an urbane lawyer and veteran politician. Out of government leadership and onto the Opposition bench goes Labor's Joseph Benedict Chifley, 64, a dignified, pipe-smoking former locomotive engineer with a talent for playing the ponies (Australia is a horse-happy land...
...happened in New Zealand last fortnight, and it happened again last week in Australia: the ruling Socialist party was decisively thrown...
Last week, in shirtsleeves and summer dresses, some 5,000,000 Australians went to the polls (voting is compulsory; slackers can be fined up to $5). They gave the combined Liberal and Country parties a clear majority of at least 27 seats (by incomplete count) in the new House of Representatives. Labor seemed sure of at least 46 seats out of a total of 123. In the victorious coalition the Liberals represented the professional and business classes; the Country Party the farmers. In the past these groups had not always cooperated. But against socialism they had a common front...
Winner Menzies, once an aloof personality with a tendency to talk down to his audiences, showed a new character in the Liberal-Country Party campaign. He mingled with audiences, took heckling good-naturedly, responded genially to hails of "Bob" from the crowd. He banged away at a single theme with crusading fervor: "We've come round again to a crucial decision. A vote for Labor means a vote for the ultimate bereavement of freedom." Labor retorted, "Vote for Bob and lose your job!" The Liberals countered with a crack at socialistic regimentation: "Vote for Bob and choose your...
...campaign's closing days, the news of Labor's defeat in New Zealand severely jarred Chifley and his men, made a sharp impression on the voters. Menzies hoped New Zealand and Australia had set a trend against Socialism that would reach all the way "home," i.e., to Britain. Said Melbourne's dapper Richard G. Casey, onetime Minister to Washington: "The man who should get the most kick out of this is Winston Churchill...