"COMPLACENT," SAYS U.K. LABOUR DELEGATE
PARIS, Aug. 17. The British Labour Member of Parliament, Mr. Ronald Mackay, told the European Assembly today that it was carrying on its "business in an atmosphere of complacency. Mr, Mackay said the assembly should quickly do something drastic to meet the problem of uniting Europe. “This assembly has gone on in an atmosphere of complacency which would change immediately if the Russians happened to march across the Iron Curtain and if American aid were withdrawn.” He supported a proposal to refer the problems of political unity to a commission.
He declared: “Send a sub-committee to America. Canada or Australia to study the federal system about which Europeans are so hopelessly ignorant. Only by political action can economic unity be achieved.” The French Socialist deputy, M. Jean Le Bail advocated the establishment of a supra-national sovereignty. We are divided between caution and daring and I am on the side of daring,” he said.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23028, 19 August 1949, Page 5
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