“PARTY SPITE”
TORY PRESS ACCUSED ATTACKS ON GOVERNMENT FOOD SHORTAGE PROBLEM (10 a.m.) LONDON. Feb. 12. ‘The Conservative tory press is trying to make party capital out of the world food situation,” said the Lord President of the Council, Mr. Herbert Morrison, in a speech at Peckham. The assessment of world food stocks had undoubtedly given a shock to British housewives, but it was not just a British difficulty.
- “We no longer have lease-lend and can no longer look at the empty larder shelves and say that our sacrifice is helping to win the war,” lie said. “But we can say and will say that if we meet the present world crisis with the same toughness and determination as we met trouble curing the war we are doing what we can to keep peace, which largely depends on the world getting something to east.” He was confident .that Britishers would refuse to panic and would wait until the debate in the House of Commons next Thursday. He suggested the situation, should be a good opportunity for Conservatives to join in finding practical ways of helping. Instead, they had seized on it to try to blame and discredit the Labour Government and conceal the real serious world and national issues behind a fog of cheap party spite,
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21945, 13 February 1946, Page 5
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