UNFAIR TO COUNTRY

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

UNFAIR TO COUNTRY

SIR W. BEVERIDGE ON SNAP ELECTION

Rec. 12.50 p.m. LONDON, May 25. Sir William Beveridge declared that a snap election was unfair to candidates, service voters, and voters generally. It had been rushed on the country with frivolous . disregard of the international, situation which is now critical and fluid, needing constant handling. Because it is being held under unfair conditions., the resulting Parliament could not have the authority it should have. Those who did not want an election now should vote against those who had brought it about.

The Conservative and Labour Parties apparently were going to fight one another on the academic issue of private or public ownership of industry. The Liberal attitude was practical, not academic. In a sentence the Liberals demanded either effective competition or public control. Sir William described the National Liberals as Tories in disguise. Their leader, Mr. Ernest Brown, had called him an amateur politician. "That is the highest praise that could be given me," said Sir William Beveridge. "What, we need in politics is more amateurs and fewer professionals."—8.0. W.