STRATEGY WRONG
LABOURITE CRITICAL ARMY REFORM URGED (British Official Wireless.) (2.30 p.m.) RUGBY, July 2. During the debate in the House of Commons, Mr. Aneurin Bevan (Lab.), who supported the censure motion, said he thought that tile main strategy of the war had been wrong—wrong weapons had been produced and these weapons were being managed by men who were not trained in the use of tsem arid had not studied or used modern weapons. -'None, he said, had thought of this war iii?terms of, the last more than had Mr. Churchill. The Ministers responsible for the failure 7 to rearm were still in the government and were supported by Mr. Churchill, Mr. Bevari urged that' Mr. Churchill should create machinery at the top of the war direction for following through his own ideas, There should be’ drastic reforms in the army, and the Secretary for War should be changed.' 4 5 Finally, Mr. Bevan begged the Government when it made a J decision to attack the enemy 7 -‘nearer home to make it out of consideration of strategical proprie/ty and not political propaganda. Nevertheless, it must not be postponed till next year.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20827, 4 July 1942, Page 5
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