NEW CHINA AND U.N.

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27405, 19 July 1954, Page 9

NEW CHINA AND U.N.

Bevan’s Attack On Churchill (Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON, July 17. Mr Aneurin Bevan, leader of the Left-wing elements in the British Labour Party, at Durham today accused Sir Winston Churchill or having “surrendered again” to the United States on the issue of Communist China’s admission to the United Nations. Mr Bevan, who was addressing a miners’ gathering, declared that the Prime Minister by deciding that the time was “not appropriate” to bring China into the United Nations was doing “exactly the same thing in 1954 as he did in 1919. ,r Mr Bevan said that in 1917-18 Sir Winston Churchill’s -Government had tried to kill the Russian Revolution, first by military intervention, then by starving it out. “The same thing is happening again,” he said. “There has been a revolution in China, but Churchill is still there and he is as stupid in 1954 as he was in 1918. “He has learned nothing at all in all these years, and no-one could have had more experience and opportunities of learning. “Unless we learn the lesson and adjust our policies accordingly, we shall bring upon us a third and last world war by not realising that you cannot do anything' else with these revolutionaries except to work with them, help them through their difficulties and not make it necessary for them to oppress their own people.” Referring to the forthcoming visit of British Labour Party members to China, Mr Bevan said the members believed it was possible to understand the difficulties of the people of China, to sympathise with their aims and to bring them into closer co-operation with the rest of the world..