SOCIALIST-TORY SQUABBLE OVER VICE-PRESIDENCY
(10 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 12. If the prime purpose of the Consultative Assembly at Strasbourg is to lay the foundation of a new, better and unified Europe, it did not make a very impressive start. While the other European delegates preserved a dignified silence, the Tory and Socialist elements in the British delegation squabbled publicly over the nomination of a vice-president. The British Labour delegation, headed by Mr. Herbert Morrison, nominated their chief party whip, Mr. William Whitely, but Mr- Churchill, supported by the Tory minority, objected on the grounds that Mr. Whitely; being a Minister, could not be impartial. The Tories nominated the Liberal Peer, Lord Layton, who was finally elected.
The newspapers on August 12 took up the squabble under their respective banners. The Daily Telegraph accused the Socialists of a secret plot to seize the key positions and the Daily Herald declared: “The Churchill stunt upsets the Council of Europe.” The Daily Mirror dismisses the squable as “unpleasant but hot necessarily important.” Commentators hoped the council would get down to serious business today.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23023, 13 August 1949, Page 5
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