LABOUR POLICY
NATIONALISATION OF BASIC
SERVICES
LONDON, February 25
The Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, Mr. Attlee, in a speech to the Bradford branch of the Labour Party, said that the Labour Party would not go to the election with a demand that everything should be "nationalised." The party would go forward with a programme in which the nationalisation of certain basic services took prior place as an instrument for the building of the kind of Britain they wanted to see.
"We of the Labour Party are not lovers of control for its own sake, but we know that for the sake of the freedom of the individual there must be a degree of control," he said. "If we seek at once 'to throw off all war controls we shall not be acting wisely. The elections of 1918 were a fraud' on the electors, won on the catch cries of 'Homes for Heroes,' 'Hang the Kaiser,' and 'Make the Germans Pay.' The country was the sufferer for that. We will not want anything of that sort this time. I do not want to promise our people that the' immediate period after the defeat of Germany is going to be an easy time when people can relax."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 48, 26 February 1945, Page 5
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