“POPULAR FRONT” FOR BRITAIN?
ATTITUDE OF LABOUR LEADER OPPOSED TO FOREIGN PRECEDENTS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received September 25, 12.50 a.m.) LONDON, September 24 “Nothing is more dangerous than following foreign precedents,’’ declared Major C. R. Attlee, leader of the Labour Party, in a speech at Blackburn, when he rejected the idea of creating a Popular Front in Britain. “I am all for unity, if on a realistic basis, but I am convinced that we cannot get peace and freedom unless we substitute at Home and abroad, the rule of law for anarchy, an capitalism is essentially anarchic.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20532, 25 September 1936, Page 9
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99“POPULAR FRONT” FOR BRITAIN? Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20532, 25 September 1936, Page 9
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