LABOUR IN BRITISH GOVERNMENT

Grey River Argus, 5 December 1940, Page 10

LABOUR IN BRITISH GOVERNMENT

Thomas Barton, City and Financial Correspondent writes—

When the Labour Ministers were appointed to the Cabinet, I quoted the "Times” to explain just why they were there. It was, said the “Times,” to prevent misunderstandings prising in the ranks of Labour about what was going to be done. Now the "Timber Trades Journal” puts it another way (and it should know, for the timber barons are well up in the hierarchy which runs the City of London): “For war purposes we have deliberately employed eminent Socialists and allowed them to occupy seme of the most important eco-« nonjie positions in the Government.

|War and Peace being exact opposites, I there is no objection to a frank recognition of the close affinity between Socialism and war, but it does not follow that the ideas of these same Socialists will be helpful m winning the peace.” It looks as though those Controllers (now-and-al ways big businessmen) have the sack in view for Herbert and Ernie when they’ve finished |their present job. ■I—GENERAL NEWS SERVICE LONDON.