foreign policy OF BRITAIN

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27463, 24 September 1954, Page 13

foreign policy OF BRITAIN

Conservative Party Backing Expected LONDON, September 22. „ voter's political correspondent says jjat Sir Winston Churchill’s Govemwill get overwhelming backing rj its foreign policy, especially for farming Western Germany, at the (Government) Party annext month. iue conference agenda, containing j;72° rd 252 resolutions, to be pubron Thursday, shows:— .’1) It contains only one major critii jjn from the rank and file Conseratives of the Government’s foreign °)JS y ZZ? ver the Suez base. il? jt e local Parties’ resolutions reS »J y a PPl a ud Sir Winston Churchill ™ Mr Eden, the Foreign Secretary, • their efforts for international , They pledge their firm support ’ > the Conservative leaders in conJ J}J} n S their present policy. ine conference will open at Blackpool on October 7. L.P? e Conservative resolutions con•a«t sharply with the mass of hostile against West German rerama”ent foeing the Labour Party leaders annual conference opening le *t Monday. Criticism On Pensions t u ine Conservative agenda as a whole L?- Ws that the rank and file Conser0# tx® 8 are at present most critical * uie Government over pensions for aged > and the present level of expenditure. inirty-three resolutions—the most topic—concern pensions, and M? rob l ems the aged. C-nv ay local parties congratulate the cn improving Britain’s irr n P° si tion and abolishing rationBut most of these are qualified vigorous calls for further deducr,°_ ns taxation especially by reduced tne continuing high level oi expenditure.” “solutions backing the GovemS. Commonwealth policy have .TP P y t forward—one from Leyton jwtn-east London, asking the Govern“increasing measures r. on members of the when they are ripe traditional ties of trade ano if says must be maintained by revising G.A.T.T T^riffc) 31 A g ree ment on Trade anc loca l party wants a British h. PJ re Exhibition held in London tc ge knowledge of and trade “Un the Commonwealth.

Ym saj d the Communists had C'h t ina g over the people of Sti dlfficult for unarmed i tS t u On the mainland to rise up against them. brid^AhX V H r ’ ’£ e ,l ca . n establish a bridgehead and hold it for three months, there will be many defections ns ” - pe °Pj e wiU come over to us, Mr Yui said. <h l‘ W ® wiU get the support of th? guerrilla pockets which already exist and we can confidently predict .® ven Communist generals will oelect to our side,” Mr Yui said