Curtin Up

Dour-lipped Prime Minister John Curtin rode a Parliamentary bucking horse through the first 23 months of Australia's wartime Labor Government. The Opposition barked at his heels like Kelpie dogs, while the man-in-the-saddle sought to build up his country's war contributions and at the same time justify his actions to the trades unions who had put him up. "Honest John" Curtin was a fair dinkum rider; last week 4,500,000 of his countrymen went to the polls for a general election (TIME, Aug. 23), voted Labor twelve of the Opposition's seats. Probable new House of Representatives lineup: Labor 48, Opposition 24, Independent 2.

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