LABOUR SUPPORT FOR S.E.A.T.O.
Debate In Commons
On Monday (Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 4. . The Labour Party decided tonight, m spite of Left Wing objections, to give wide backing to the South-east Asian Treaty Organisation when the Commons debates the eight-nation pact on Monday. The party took this line at a 45minute private meeting after learning the terms of the Government motion, Which calls for support of its Southeast Asian policy. Earlier the Labour opposition had been expected to put forward its own critical motion without voting against the treaty but expressing its reservations on it. Many Labour spokesmen have been critical of the omission of India and Ceylon from the treaty, but the party’s left-wingers, headed by Mr Aneurin Bevan, have been most vocal of the pact’s critics, charging it was aimed at encirclement of Communist China.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27500, 6 November 1954, Page 7
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