SOCIALIST DICTATORSHIP
POSSIBILITY IN BRITAIN VIEWS OF SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS SEQUEL TO ELECTION CHANGE. WIDE POWERS FOR. CABINET (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 2.50 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Aug. 28. Civil tvar and » dictatorship following the election of a Socialist Government are startling possibilities envisaged toy Sir Stafford Cripps in a. symposium of the views of Labour leaders entitled, “Problems of a Socialist Government.” He declares that the first task of a Socialist Government wouJJ he to pass an Emergency Powers Bill 'empowering the Cabinet to establish socialism without consulting Parliament. ■Sir Stafford Cripps foresees the measures would not pass the House or Lords and the Crown. If it wore decided to continue in power unconstitutionally the upshot would be conflict with, tiie Grown and the Lords judiciary throwing the country in a conv ulsibn leading to a capitalist uprising which would have to be quelled by force. Sir Stafford Cripps in a letter denies he approves of a dictatorship as a method of introducing Socialism. “The Times” in an editorial retorts that the methods are indistinguishable.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 28 August 1933, Page 7
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178SOCIALIST DICTATORSHIP Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 28 August 1933, Page 7
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