THE CONSERVATIVES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26027, 15 December 1945, Page 7

THE CONSERVATIVES

NUMBER DISREGARD APPEAL (Rec. 11 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 14. . The most astonishing feature of the loan debate was that 98 members came out into the open and opposed the loan, says the Press Association’s political correspondent. They included Mr R. J. Boolhby, Squadron Leader C. Hollis, and Mr D. Tellers, who opposed it in the debate. It was more surprising because about 70 Conservatives disregarded Mr Churchill’s appeal to abstain from voting. A number of Conservatives with famous names marched in unfamiliar company into the Government lobby. About 90 Conservatives ostentatiously refrained from voting, remaining in their seats during the division. The Times, in a leading article on the acceptance of the loan plan, said there is an immediate inescapable challenge in the winter of 1945 as there was in the summer of 1940 to British power to produce. The British standard of living as a world influence would be decided by the factories’ output per man-hour. Success was only possible through a combination of public Manning and private responsibility. There must be toil at least as unremitting as during the war and continued abstinence. Britain would have to work with other countries for the progressive development of economic and social opportunities. No project could endure which did not provide the chance of prosperous employment for all peoples. The United States alone could give real hope that the Bretton Woods system would work.