BRITAIN “NOT OUT OF THE WOOD”

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26032, 8 February 1950, Page 5

BRITAIN “NOT OUT OF THE WOOD”

Mr Attlee continued: ‘‘Under the Labour Government, the country has been brought a long way on the road to recovery, but I am not telling you that you are out of the wood. There are difficulties ahead. We shall need a continuance of effort. “I believe that that effort has been forthcoming because the mass of the people knew that they were getting a square deal from a Government which, they knew, stqod for all the people, and not a section of the people. I have every faith that we will lead the country to security, prosperity and happiness.”

During the last four and a half years, the Labour Government had made Britain a place where men and women could live, free to worship in their owp way, and free to speak their own minds as free citizens of a great country. “We have done this so far as we have had the power, but in lhe world to-day one has to work with other nations; therefore whatever we have sought to do has been conditioned by world political and economic circumstances,” Mr Attlee said.

The Labour Party had carried out its last election programme in its entirety, but because such had not been the case with previous Conservative Governments. the electors had adopted a cynical attitude, and people began to lean away from democracy ana reach out their hands for the false gods of totalitarianism, whether black or red.

Mr Attlee added: “One of the gr«»test services of the Labour Government in Britain has been to restore the faith of the ordinary man and woman in democracy.”