SOCIALISTS CRITICISED

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 123, 26 May 1945, Page 7

SOCIALISTS CRITICISED

"VERY RELUCTANT 1 CHAMPIONS"

Rec noon. RUGBY. May 25. It was not the Conservative Party, but the Labour and Liberal Parties which broke up the National Government, declared the Minister of State, Mr. Richard Law, in an election speech tonight. In the field of international relationships, he said, there was no real dispute between the Conservatives and the others, and it was because of the | paramount importance of those relationships at the present time, more than for any other reason, that he rei gretted the end of the partnership. Even in the domestic field there was much on which men of good . will could have worked together. Yet all this was to be thrown'aside because a few hundred excited, passionate men and vyomen—who were accustomed at this time of the year to meet in Blackpool or at some other health resort— were tired of facing facts and anxious to put their theories to the test.

He said he believed that in their innermost minds the Socialist leaders were very reluctant champions at present of the cause for which they were going into battle. He feared they were not the masters of their own house. If a Socialist Government was elected those who were really exalted to power would be "the wild men of Blackpool."—B.O.W.