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...FAITH IN AUSTRALIA, he found himself still Premier with his Cabinet intact. His United Australia Party, with the help of the Country Party, retains a shrunken but safe majority in both Houses. Enticing schemes of government inflation advocated by both the Dominion's former Laborite Premier J. H. Scullin and the irrepressible J. S. Lang of New South Wales seemed safely shelved. Langites took comfort in the fact that though defeated, their leader polled three times as many votes as he did at the time of his great defeat...
...last section is held until Dec. 21 with a space left open for last-minute news, like the "fudge box" of an evening newspaper. For that reason the new Almanac even reports the overthrow of President Araujo of El Salvador, Dec. 3; the defeat of Prime Minister Scullin of Australia by Joseph A. Lyons, Dec. 19. Included also are late census figures for Canada. France and Palestine, football scores...
Promptly Laborite Premier Scullin made Tasmania's Lyons Postmaster General and Minister of Public Works & Railways in the Dominion Cabinet. His big chance came almost immediately when a stench of scandal arose around the Dominion Treasurer, "Big Boss" Edward Granville Theodore. As a disinfectant "The Honest Man from Tasmania" was appointed Acting Treasurer. It is no secret that during Mr. Scullin's enforced absence of four months to attend the Imperial Conference at London in 1930, the real Premier of Australia was Mr. Lyons. Together he and the nominal Acting Premier, James Edward Fenton, did what they could...
When Premier Scullin returned to Australia he found Boss Theodore fairly fuming at Treasurer Lyons' presumptuous independence. He, Mr. Theodore, felt that the smell of scandal had now been aired out sufficiently for him to resume the Treasuryship. While lurid epithets were hurled by Australia's lively Press, Mr. Theodore was reappointed Treasurer- this being the decisive mistake of Mr. Scullin's career...
Ousted Mr. Lyons and his friend Mr. Fenton dramatically broke with Premier Scullin, quit his Labor Party and rushed off to achieve remarkable success in winning supporters from Australia's old guard conservative politicians for what they christened the "United Australia Party...