Acland States Aims Of Common Wealth Party
(Rec. 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, April 13. Sir Richard Acland, Parliamentary Leader of Common Wealth Party, in an address to the Overseas Empire Correspondents’ Association, said: “Our main trouble is to make people realise that we really mean what we say. We believe in abolishing the present system, not altering it. We do not believe in public control of private industry. Present controls are not halfway towards Socialism —they are three-quarters of the way towards Fascism.
“We believe in public ownership of the whole darn shooting match, right down to, but excluding one-man ownership of small businesses. Stock exchange, share certificates, bonds and company promoters will not exist from John o’ Groats to Land’s End. I am absolutely confident that this will be achieved at least in the next 15 years.”
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Northern Advocate, 14 April 1944, Page 3
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