CONFIDENCE MOTION

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 102, 2 May 1941, Page 8

CONFIDENCE MOTION

TWO AMENDMENTS TABLED

(Rec. 2 p.m.)

LONDON, May 1

In the House of Commons Mr. Edgar Granville and Sir J. H. Morris-Jones have tabled an amendment adding the following words to. the Government's confidence motion: "and in order effectively to carry out this declared

policy requests the Government to take immediate steps to mobilise fully the whole resources of the nation upon a basis of total war so that' our forces may be adequately equipped with guns, tanks, aircraft, and ships, to reorganise the propaganda arid news services behind . realistic diplomacy, to undertake a more intensified policy of home food production, and, for-these purposes, to appoint a small War Cabinet irrespective of party and without Departmental responsibility, and to include Dbminion statesmen."

Messrs. Maxton, McGoverni and Stephen, all of whom belong' to the Independent Labour Party, have tabled an amendment to the Government motion as follows: "This House, regards what happened in Greece, repeating what happened in Norway, prior to the formation of the present Government, as another indication of the disastrous development of-the.war; and urges that it is essential for the National Government to be replaced by a Government which would appeal to the peoples of Europe under Nazi rule to support peace on the basis of a Socialist Europe." ; .' .'.. .' '