KING’S SPEECH
FINAL DRAFT APPROVED SHORT CABINET MEETING (N.Z.P. A.—Copyright) (Rec. 10.25). LONDON, March 3. A short Cabinet ‘ meeting was held in the Prime Minister’s rooms at the House of Commons to-day, at which approval was given to the final draft of the King’s Spech, which will open the new Parliament oil Monday. Reuter’s political correspondent understands that the King’s Speech will contain no Government retreat on steel nationalisation. Informed auarters described as entirely without foundation reports that the Government, because of its slender majority, was considering repeal of the Iron and Steel Act or, at any rate, its virtual liquidation. The Government is taking the line that there is plenty of time to manoeuvre on steel. It will, if possible, avoid the risk of an early defeat on the steel issue, although it has no intention of risking its prestige with the 13,000,000 who voted Labour, thus supporting the Government’s declared policy on steel.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 119, 4 March 1950, Page 5
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