Labour Members Said To Be Displeased With Mr. Shinwell

Wanganui Chronicle, 8 May 1948, Page 5

Labour Members Said To Be Displeased With Mr. Shinwell

Recd. 6.40 p.m. London, May 7. According to reports of a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party the Minister for War (Mr. Shinwell) was violently attacked by Mr. James Callaghan, Parliamentary Secretary to th? Ministry of transport, for his

remarks confessing that the Government undertook nationalisation measures with too little detailed preparation.

Mr. Callaghan is said to have declared that Mr. Shinwell’s speech was worth 20 Nenni telegrams to the Opposition. Some reports sax - that Mr. Shinwell was not given an opportunity to reply by the chairman, who said the discussion was out of order, and that Mr. Shinwell resented the fact that neither the Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee) nor lhe Lord President of the Council (Mr. Morrison), who were both present, did not come to this defence. This report had something to do with the rumour that Mr. Shinwen intended resigning—a rumour which was firmly scotched. The incident Is now said to be “closed,” and that Mr. Callaghan’s position is not “in jeopardy.”