COMPLETE UNION

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20379, 16 October 1940, Page 6

COMPLETE UNION

BRITAIN AND AMERICA LABOUR M.P.’S ADVICE COMMON PARLIAMENT ALLIANCE NOT ENOUGH (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Oct. 16, 1.40 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 15. In an article in the Daily Express, Captain J. G. Wedgwood, the Labour member of the House of Commons for Newcastle-under-Lyme, recommends not only a British-United States alliance, but a complete union with one sovereign Parliament and also a common Foreign Office, Colonial Office, defence service, Supreme Court and free trade and a stable currency. Captain Wedgwood says: “An alliance is not enough. One-union Government can alone give security in the long struggle before us. No State, not even Britain, can hope to recover alone. Left alone, all seem certain to sink in barbarism and anarchy. “Many here are prejudiced against the Americans. Many more subconsciously sympathise with the totalitarians. “The working-class realises, as others must, that as the war goes bn all will become poorer and increasingly need a great, powerful State to feed, save and restore them.”