PETROL SHORTAGE IN BRITAIN
MR CHURCHILL BLAMES SOCIALISTS LONDON, Feb. 14. Speaking in Edinburgh, the leader of the Conservative Party (Mr Churchill) said he had never suggested that Britain should use more dollars to buy petrol. Refineries to handle the vast masses of petroleum in the sterling area would be in existence a.id ut work to-day “if the Socialist Ministers had not shown their usual ineptitude and incompetence.”
Mr Churchill continued: “Everything the Socialists touch turns to muddle whether it is Mr Ernest Bevin’s mismanagement and loss of influence in the Middle East, which has led t) the closing of the Haifa refinery or whether it is the Socialist departmental red tape that has paralysed the construction of a great refinery at Southampton.”
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26039, 16 February 1950, Page 5
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