Fear

Northern Advocate, 28 October 1949, Page 2

Fear

“If previous experience is any guide the Prime Minister and his friends, in this election campaign, will again employ the psychology of fear to the limit,” said Mr Holland. "You will be told what dreadful people we are, how we caused the last slump, ana how anxious we are to create another, so that all of us can be perfectly miserable. "You will be told, as you have been told before, that we will cut wages and pensions, reopen all the shops on Saturday, sack the Civil Service and so on.

“I stoutly repudiate any such suggestions.

"I say emphatically to the Government, as I have said in the House to their faces, that if they say those things, they are saying what is not true.”

In the 1946 election campaign, said Mr Holland, the Prime Minister had said that if Labour's opponents got into office, in two hours—in one hour —all the structure of security and justice that had been erected could be destroyed. If that insinuation was repeated, all he could say was that it was a “whopping great lie.” The decision of the Prime Minister to monopolise the air on the eve of the election, as he had done in 1946, was high-handed, selfish, and unsporting.