CHURCHILL'S CRY IN WILDERNESS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 146, 22 June 1945, Page 5

CHURCHILL'S CRY IN WILDERNESS

BE WARNED BRITAIN Hopes To Help Nation In Critical Peace N.Z. Press Association—Copyright Rec. 2 p.m. LONDON, June 21. "We have yet another struggle against Japan before us, which must be wound up and finished off before peace returns to this tortured world," said Mr. Churchill, delivering the third of his election radio talks. "The Americans stood by us and we must stand by them. "Quite apart from this, we have our own possessions, conquered and ravaged by the Japanese, from which there comes the call of honour for their clearance and redemption."

"I still hope to take my share in a peace which will be both worldwide and lasting, and from which will come victories in social progress."

Mr. Churchill told his constituents that without their support during the 11 years he was in the political wilderness he would not have been in a position to be called on to assume the supreme responsibility for guiding Britain at the moment of its mortal danger. Also, he said, he would not have -been able to give in Parliament the warnings which, when the moment came, had been recognised as true by the whole British nation and Empire.

"Parliamentary Eclipse" Foreseen Mr.- Churchill said, "The Socialists have declared very loudly that the only way to save Britain is to put them in power with a mandate to transform our island life as fast as possible into a Socialist community under their authority. Moreover, the central Government is to plan for all our lives and tell us exactly where to go and what to do, and any resistance to their commands will be punished. "Sir Stafford Cripps has made it clear that he and his kind must give orders to us all, and if Parliament asked awkward questions it would be controlled or swept aside. He and some socialist leaders, though others repudiate them, talk of violence to be used upon us, if necessary, to make us conform sharply and promptly to the benevolent idea of these autocratic philanthropists, who aspire to change the human heart as by magic and make themselves rulers.

"I have given you warnings in the past, and they have not been listened to. I sincerely believe I can help you in the critical future which is rushing towards us, in as good a way as anyone else, and as long as my faculties and your confidence last, I will strive to do so." Professor Laski Criticised Mr. Churchill continued: "An attempt to impose the yoke of Socialism on the necks of free British people would lead to a period of disorder and a Parliamentary eclipse such as has never been seen in history. It is abhorrent to the British idea of freedom that an employer should have undue power over his employees, but the freedom of the wage-earner to choose and change his employment and use collective bargaining, including the right to strike, runs absolutely counter to Socialist doctrine.

"Millions of l trade unionists are Conservatives and several other millions are going to vote for the National Government for patriotic reasons because of the dangers amid which we stand at present. The Socialist party has far less right to call itself Labour than Mr. Attlee has to call himself its leader." Leap Into Notoriety After recalling his invitation to Mr. Attlee to join the Big Three talks, Mr. Churchill said, "From what I knpv of him and his views over these last five years, I did not expect that there would arise a single issue which could not be reconciled in an agreeable manner.

"However, a new figure has leapt into notoriety and the situation has now become complicated and darkened in consequence of the repeated intei'ventions of Professor Laski. He has reminded all of us, including Mr. Attlee, that the final determination on all questions of foreign policy rests, so far as the Socialist party is concerned, with the dominating Socialist executive.

"The British people have always, hitherto, wanted their affairs conducted by men they know, but now, it seems, we must refer to an obscure committee to be governed by unrepresentative persons, and that they will share secrets and give orders to so-called Ministers of the Crown, who will appear in Parliament to deliver orations upon which they have been instructed, not from their own hearts and cbnsciences, not even from their constituencies, but from these dim conclaves below."

SOCIALISTS , CHANCES "Prepared To Make Sensational About Face 5, CHANGE OF MIND REPORTED Rec. 2 p.m. LONDON, June 21. "Leaders of the Socialist party are doing a halfway private assessment of their chances at the election and are preparing to make a sensational about-face," says the Daily Express. "Their own straw forecast does not give them victory, but a substantial increase—nearly 100 seats above the present representation of 170 in the last House of Commons.

"A representatiye spokesman said, 'We may even gain as many as 120 seats and thus force a stalemate in the House.' If this happens they are now prepared to serve in a coalition under Mr. Churchill, but on the condition that the names of the Conservative Ministers in the new Cabinet are submitted for the approval of the Socialist leaders."