NEVER A COMMUNITY IN SUCH DANGER CHURCHILL AVERS

Evening Star, Issue 26103, 17 May 1947, Page 7

NEVER A COMMUNITY IN SUCH DANGER CHURCHILL AVERS

(Rec. 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, May 16/ “ I warn you not to underrate the gravity of the economic and financial distress into which we are moving. These will be of greater intensity and severity than any we have known before,” said Mr Churchill, addressing the Scottish Conservative rally at Ayr. He added that there was no country in the world being racked to pieces as Britain was, and there was no country that was less capable of surviving such treatment. “ There was never a community which stood in so dangerous an economic position.” There was no part of the world in which British affairs had not been mismanaged, and in which British influences had not painfully declined. 11 We are making ■ fools of ourselves by keeping 100,000 soldiers in Palestine in the most dismal of all quarrels into which we have blundered.” Mr Churchill told the Liberals that they were wasting their time abusing the Conservatives, and that they should concentrate their fire on the common opponent. “We do not seek alliances with those who do not wish to work with us, but there is no reason why we should not be'what were called in the war co-belligerents.” Ho said that he thought that the Government’s nationalisation policy would be a good lesson to the people. “ The Government doubtless will wish to conceal the accounts to prevent the cost from being known, but when the Conservatives come into power, as we shall, we shall unfailingly expose these accounts to the nation so that the real consequences of the Socialist experiment are made plain.” Six thousand people crowded the ice rink at Ayr to hear Mr Churchill, and several thousand more stood in the car park outside listening to a relay of the speech.