LABOUR PARTY VIEW OF FRENCH PLAN TO POOL EUROPEAN INDUSTRY
LONDON, June 12 (Recd. 1 am).— The national executive committee of Britain's Labour Party today hailed the Schuman plan to pool West European coal and steel production as "a critical challenge which Socialists would be the first to welcome,” but it warned that any industries concerned in European planning should be subject to Government direction in their own'country. "Otherwise the Government which has accepted certain obligations in the international organisation will have no means of carrying them out,” the committee said in a policy statement today. "Britain is not just a small crowded island off the western coast of Continental Europe. She is the nerve centre of a worldwide Commonwealth which extends into every continent. In every respect, except distance, we in Britain are closer to our kinsmen in Australia and New Zealand on the far side of the world than we are to Europe. The economies of Commonwealth countries are complementary to that of Britain to a degree which those of Western Europe can never equal.—Reuter
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Wanganui Chronicle, 13 June 1950, Page 5
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