Word: campaigners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Menzies promised to stop bureaucratic highhandedness, also promised to outlaw the weak Australian Communist Party. The Dominion social welfare program (old-age pensions since 1909, maternity benefits since 1912) was not a campaign issue. Menzies will retain it in full...
...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...
...that on the continent there were areas half as large as Spain without a priest, some 40,000 parishes without pastors. His decision was to go back as a priest to the crowds and microphones he had given up. Since then he has carried his recruiting and fund-raising campaign into Venezuela, Chile, Colombia and Argentina...
Examples: "More than 55 million pieces of campaign literature were . . . distributed, carrying medicine's answer to the federal plan . . . Over 65,000 posters of The Doctor* went up in medical offices and elsewhere to dramatize the case against political medicine...