“War Would Split Labour”— British Socialist Urges Partnership With Soviet
(Rec. 10 a.m.) LONDON, October 8. War, if, it came, would split the Labour Party from top to bottom, said the Labour M.P., Mr Konni Zilliacus, addressing a Newcastle meeting. Such a war would drag on for years and peter out in revolutions, civil wars and chaos. The only certain victor would be the evils of the police state and dictatorship.
Mr Zillacus said it was vital that the Labour Government, for the sake of the country’s economic recovery and stopping the drift to war, should invite the Soviet into a partnership with Britain and the United States in settling the affairs of the Middle East, including international control of oil resources, and of the Dardanelles and Suez Canal. It also meant solving the Berlin problem honourably by reverting to Labour’s European policy of solidarity with the working class and regarding Socialism as the basis for economic reconstruction.
War was the final disaster and the uppermost penalty for moral, intellectual and political bankruptcy in international affairs, he concluded.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 October 1948, Page 5
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