CIOUS ATTACK ON CHURCHILL

Evening Star, Issue 24296, 10 September 1942, Page 5

CIOUS ATTACK ON CHURCHILL

HIS LEADERSHIP NATIONAL DISASTER GOVERNMENT LACKS " GUTS '■ I’ec. 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 9. “If Mr Churchill will indulge in .lies# turgid, wordy, dull, and prosaic icw chapters of his book ho must expect something like what happened yesterday,” said. Mr Aneurin Bevan in the Souse of Commons, referring to th# collapse of the' debate following the Prime Minister’s review of the war. “if Stalingrad falls and the Russians are driven beyond the Urals, working-class Britain will be asking why. It will be no use Air Churchill telling us that military considerations made it impossible to prevent this, because, unfortunately, the British people have more confidence in the military sagacity of Voroshilov and Timoshenko than of Air Churchill, and th# Russian generals declared that a second front was a practical militaryproposition. Air Churchill’s continuation of office is a major national disaster. He is no longer able to summon the spirit of the British people, because he represents" policies they deeply distrust At the end of three ’•ears of war all that, mobilisation of th# Empire resources can do is to preoccupy about 150.000 Germans and Italians in Egypt The Germans could have been beaten in 1942. and the reason why they have not is that the Government has not the guts to do it.. We are going to face a winter with a most acute coal shortage. Onr war production might suffer grievously. The suffering which will arise from the coal shortage will be due to Mr .Churchill's absolute ignorance of elementary facts of industrial life. “ He invited about GO or GO representatives of the Press to meet him the day_ before the Commons met in secret session on shipping, and told them

everything the Commons was told the following day. Mr Churchill is a member of the House of Commons, and if he has anything to say ho_ should say it here, not at secret meetings with the Press. But he did far more, because at that meeting he railed against the representatives of the Press for giving his critics so much space in the newspapers. I say that this amounts to a political intimidation without precedent in the history of Britain, and is_ evidence of the increasing paranoia of Mr Churchill’s psychology, for which the docility of the House of Commons is responsible.” SPANISH CABINET CHANGES DUE TO INTERNAL CAUSES NEW YORK. September 9. The Washington correspondent of the ‘ New York Times ’ states that, accoruing to authentic reports, the recent shake-up in the Spanish Cabinet was due to internal causes. External or war issues had no direct part in the important changes General L'ranco made, although the elimination of the Foreign Minister. Senor Suner, may bo regarded as a gain for tbe United Nations because of his extreme pro-Axis views. Observers here believe that the changes indicate the ultimate restoration of tho monarchy. mm planes TO BE MADE IN BRITAIN (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 10.20 a.m.J RUGBY, Sept. 9. The Minister of Aircraft Production told tho House of Commons that orders had been placed in Britain and that a suitable programme of production bad been arranged for cargo-carrying aircraft, and with assistance expected from the United States, a substantial number of such aircraft should be available.