LABOUR LEADER’S VISION

Taranaki Daily News, 29 August 1933, Page 7

LABOUR LEADER’S VISION

WAR AND A DICTATORSHIP POSSIBILITIES IN BRITAIN PROBLEMS OF SOCIALISTS. “CAPITALIST REVOLUTION” By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright London, August 28. Civil war and a dictatorship following the election of a Socialist Government are the startling possibilities envisaged by Sir Stafford Cripps in a symposium of the views of Labour leaders entitled “Problems of a Socialist Government.” He declares the first task of a Socialist Government would be to pass an emergency powers Bill empowering the Cabinet to establish Socialism without consulting Parliament. Sir Stafford Cripps foresees that the measures would not pass the House of Lords and the Crown if it decided to continue in power unconstitutionally. The upshot would be conflict with the Crown, the Lords and the judiciary, throwing the country into a convulsion, leading to a capitalist uprising, which would have to be quelled by force. Sir Stafford in a letter denies that he approves of a dictatorship as the method of introducing Socialism. The Times in an editorial retorts that the methods are indistinguishable.