COMMUNISTS IN BRITAIN
“PART ALLOTTED BY
HITLER”
MB ERNEST BEVIN’S STATEMENT
(BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.)
RUGBY, December 15. After interruptions by a small group of men when he spoke in Edinburgh under the auspices of the Scottish Trade Union Congress, the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Ernest Bevin) halted his address to comment on the part which he declared had been allotted to Communists to prepare the way for Herr Hitler’s peace offer. “I know,” Mr Bevin said, ‘‘that orders have been issued, preparatory to Hitler making a peace offer, to the Communists in this country to disturb meetings." Pointing to the interrupters, ,Mr Bevin declared: ‘T know very well that you have been instructed to try to create the impression that the working class of this country is disunited. You have started it but I don’t think it will work.”
This declaration evoked a storm of ■applause followed by shouts of “They are Nazis. Throw them out!”
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Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23205, 17 December 1940, Page 9
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