NOT A WARMONGER, MR BEVIN SAYS
LONDON, October 23.
“Whoever accuses me of ' being a warmonger I give the lie back to him direct,” the Foreign Secretary (Mr Ernest Bevin) told his Wandsworth constituents last night. “This hurling of accusations is not the way to get peace,” he added. He would, he said, go to ..the conference of the' Foreign Ministers in November fully conscious that failure would be a terrible responsibility. _ “I shall try to succeed,” he said. “Failure will not be Britain’s fault. I am accused daily of wanting to tie Britain up to the United States. I do not want to/tie up to anybody, either to Mosco.w or Washington. What I want to do is to pay our way and go into the conference as a great independent nation.”
There must be no mistake —Britain would maintain an efficient Army, Navy, and Air Force, he said, when discussing the cuts in the services’ manpower. “I will not be a party to taking the chances Mr Chamberlain took, which landed us in the 1939 mess,” he said. z
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 October 1947, Page 5
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