Victory Sign in Election
Mary Soames, daughter of Winston Churchill, gives her father's famous victory sign as she helps her…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Politics & elections, 1950
2,095 stories in Sydney's papers · page 26 of 105
Demand for Election in Victoria
MELBOURNE, Friday. -- The clamor for an early State election to clarify the political situation is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Uncanny Quiet Of The British Election Fight
Yesterday 35 million British electors gave their verdict. What was the main issue? Historians will perhaps dub this the election fought over full employment, or continued…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Sydney Morning [?]herald Friday, February 24, 1950 Big Stakes in Coming State Elections
The McGirr Government is striving desperately to create a favourable impression on the public mind in the opportunity…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Parliament FEDERAL
CANBERRA, Friday.—The Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, made a long statement on Japanese war crime trials in the House…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Parliament's 3-Day Week
CANBERRA, Friday.—In future the House of Representatives will not sit on Fridays unless it has some special reason for doing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pottering about Westminster the Parliament Book, by Guy Eden. London: Staples Press, Ltd
GUY EDEN, political and diplomatic correspondent of the Daily Express, has covered…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →A Mild Martinet Led Labour At Election By A Staff Correspondent
Return of a Labour Government with a safe majority would have been a personal triumph for Clement Richard Attlee. This shy, mild-mannered Fabian socialist…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Four Labour M.L.A.s Are Refused Election Endorsement
The State A.L.P. executive last night refused endorsement to four sitting Labour members of the Legislative Assembly for the next State elections. The members are: Messrs. J. Geraghty (North…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Candidates Chosen State Liberals
The general secretary of the N.S.W. division of the Liberal Party, Mr. J. L. Carrick, announced yesterday that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sidelights on British elections
ELECTION FEVER gripped London like a Test match as Conservatives drew level in the count. This newspaper poster outside the London stock exchange caught everyone's eye…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →4 Labor M.L.A's not endorsed Party Will Seek New Candidates
The Central Executive of the New South Wales branch of the Labor Party last night refused to endorse four sitting Labor-members as A.L.P…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dramatic Swing in Election Labor's big lead slashed
LONDON, Fri.--Labor's lead in the British general election dropped by 47 this afternoon. At the close of counting at 6.40 this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stop Press British Elections
LONDON, Saturday.--With nine results to come in the British general election the Labor Party is leading by 13 seats…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Significance to Australia of U.k. Elections Result
Australia's economic position will be affected by the British elections. The British Isles are the only portion of the Commonwealth today governed by bureaucratic, authoritarian Socialism. The British Government is not a Labor government, as Truth remembers earlier Labor governments in Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Attlee at the Crossroads New Elections Likely Soon
LONDON, Saturday. — Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee), as head of the Labor Party which was returned to power with a margin of only 10 seats,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Red Election Won't Count For Much
LONDON, Saturday.—After their own battle of the hustings the word-drunk British people are able once more to cast an appraising eve at the affairs of Europe, where elections are very much a 1950 fashion…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →New Election Almost Certain This Year Attlee: "Will carry on" LONDON
A new British election is almost certain this year. Prime Minister Attlee's Labor Government has only a nine-seat majority and is not expected to remain in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.S. Comments on Elections: Elections featured in America New York
"It seems improbable that Labor can govern for long" New York Tribune…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Liberal 'old faithfuls' can decide the fate of Britain What the world thinks of election result
LONDON, Sat.--The 2,500,000 people who brought about the stalemate in the British elections will hold the fate of Britain in their hands in a new…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →