BRITAIN'S FOREIGN POLICY
GOVERNMENT LEADERS
CRITICISED
LABOUR MEMBER’S ATTACK
(Received October 7, 2 a.m.U
LONDON, October 6
“I am going to speak bluntly. Britain in 1931 was secure in the military, naval, and air sense. To-day that security is gone. If a Labour Government were in power to-mor-row it would be compelled to proceed to increase British armaments.” In these words Dr. Hugh Dalton, M.P., moving the resolution about the armament programme, opened a lively debate at the Labour conference at Edinburgh. Dr. Dalton said treaty breaking had become a daily fascist habit. The Government had been evading responsibility for what happened. The sly evasions of Sir John Simon, the prim pretences of Sir Samuel Hoare, the feeble amiability of Mr R. A. Eden, the lazy lack of leadership of Mr Stanley Baldwin, and the senile vanity of Mr Ramsay MacDonald had contributed to the plight ■of Britain and the World.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21907, 7 October 1936, Page 9
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