PROGRESS OF THE WAR

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23319, 3 May 1941, Page 10

PROGRESS OF THE WAR

Debate in House Of Commons TWO AMENDMENTS TO MOTION i (Received May 2, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 1. Two members of the House of Commons,- Mr Edgar Granville and Sir J. H. Morris-Jones, have tabled an amendment adding the following words to the Government’s confidence motion: “And in order effectively to carry out this declared policy, the House requests the Government to take immediate steps fully to mobilise the whole resources of the nation upon a basis of total war so that our forces may be adequately equipped with guns, tanks, aircraft, and ships, to reorganise the propaganda and news services behind a realistic diplomacy, to undertake a more intensified policy of home food production, and for these purposes appoint a small War Cabinet irrespective of party-and without departmental responsibility to include Dominion statesmen.” The motion, to ■be debated on the first sitting day after, this week, is as follows:—“ This House approves the policy of His Majesty’s Government in senciir. help to Greece and declares its confidence that our operations m the Middle East, as in all other theatres of war, will be pursued by tpe Government with the utmost vigour.’ Mr-J. Maxton, Mr J. McGovern, and Mr u Stephen, all members of the Independent Labour Party, have tabled the following amendment to the Government’s motion: “This House regards what happened in Greece as repeating what happened in Norway before the formation of the present Government, and as another indication of the disastrous development of the war, and urges that it is essential that the National Government be replaced by a government which would appeal to the peoples of Europe' under Nazi rule to support peace on the basis of a Socialist Europe.”