Mr Churchill's Doleful Tale of Britain’s Future

Grey River Argus, 20 May 1947, Page 3

Mr Churchill's Doleful Tale of Britain’s Future

LONDON, May 18. “I warn you not to underrate the gravity of the economic and financial distresses into which we are moving. These will be of greater intensity and severity than any we have known before,’’ said Mr. Churchill, addressing the Scottish Conservatives’ rally at Aye. There was no country in the world being racked to pieces as Britain was, and there was no country that was less capable of surviving such treatment. i “There was Tiever a community which stood in so dangerous an was no part of the world in which l economic position.” he said. There 1 British affairs had not been .mismanaged and in which British influences had painfully declined. “We are making fools of ourselves by keeping 100,000 soldiers in Palestine in the most dismal of all quarrels into which we have blundered,” he said.

Mr. Churchill tol dthe Liberals that they were wasting their time abusing the Conservatives, and that they should concentrate their fire on a common opponent. “We do not seek alliance with those who do not wish to work with us, but there is no reason why we should not be what was called in war, co-belligerents.” He said that he though the Government’s nationalisation policy would be a good lesson to the people. “The Government, doubtless, will wish to conceal the accounts to precent the cost from being known, but when the Conservatives come into power, as we shall, we shall unfailingly expose these accounts to the nation, so that the real consequences of the Socialist experiment are made plain.” Six thousand crowded the Ice Rink at Aye to hear Mr. Churchill, and several thousands more stood in a car park outside listening to a relay of the speech.