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DECISION OF SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS APPLICATION FOR READMISSION United Press Association—By Electric Tel egraph—Copyright LONDON, May-30. The British Labour Conference overwhelmingly rejected a motion opposing conscription. Sir Stafford Cripps and four other members who had been expelled, applies for readmission to the Labour Party. They said that they were prepared to sign the usual undertakings. A letter signed by Sir Stafford Cripps. Mr G. R. Strauss, Mr Aneurin Bevan, Lieutenant,-Commander Young and Mr Robert Bruce quoted Dr. Hugh Dalton's reference to holding an opinion yesterday, and proceeded: “If our application for readmission is granted we shall exercise freedom to impress upon the party the necessity for making an effective opposition to the National Government and to oppose every tendency to co-operate with that Government, which we regard as the gravest menace to the working class of Britain. We shall abide by the decision of the conference regarding the Popular Front because if the tactics are rejected its immediate practicability is destroyed.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21360, 1 June 1939, Page 9
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