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Trouble closed in last week on James Henry Scullin, Australia's recently invalided Prime Minister, the hero who won in 1929 the most sweeping victory Australia's Labor Party ever scored...
...Scullin takes his orders from Theodore" is common talk; but the Senate, as Senates will, refused to take orders, threw out the inflation bill 21 to 6. Encouraged by the Senate, the Commonwealth Bank informed the Government that Treasury overdrafts will not be honored by the Bank above a total...
...Australia disgusted with Theodore, Scullin & Co.? Believing that she may be, Opposition Leader John Greig Latham (Nationalist) took a drastic step last week. He resigned, handed over leadership to a politician of broader popularity, Joseph Aloysius Lyons, former Acting Treasurer of Australia. He, by attracting to the Nationalist cause waverers and independents, may be able to roll up a vote that will unseat Labor...
...Labor camp strategists thought that Laborite Scullin would meet the Nationalist challenge by attempting to force a dissolution of both House and Senate. If he succeeds, they predicted, if he goes to the country in a general election promising the unemployed to succor them by inflation, jobless votes may enable...
Nationalist strategy will be to block dissolution if possible, try to capture the House of Representatives by splitting off supporters of Mr. Scullin. During the week Great Britain helped out harassed Australia by granting her a timely moratorium...