Only Policy'

Northern Advocate, 28 October 1949, Page 5

Only Policy'

deprecating appeals to pure selfishness, Mr Attlee said: “With the election coming along some time in the next eight or nine months I do think it is up to everybody to realise the importance of this matter from the point of view of the whole country.” The Opposition had always said, "Drop your policy and we will come in with you.”

The theory always was that there was some strange orthodoxy about the Conservative policy, as against Labour policy. "That is out of date now, because the policy which is going to win through is the policy of the Labour Party,” he said. On the question of sterling balances, Mr Attlee said they were a great strain, but Britain could not close them down right away.

She had/ a great interest in trying to preserve peace and stability, especially in South-East Asia. There would have to be far tighter control, but eventually there must come settlement.

"You cannot, however, 'disregard the rights of other people,” he said. The balances had been built up during the war.

They might have been built up wrongly, or too big, but they could not be repudiated.