RESOURCES OF NATION

Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21410, 2 May 1941, Page 6

RESOURCES OF NATION

BASIS of total war WAR CABINET URGED CRITICISM OF GOVERNMENT (United *.esa Ansn.— Eiet. rel. Copyright) (Received May 2, 3.15 p.m.) LONDON, May 1 Members of the House of Commons, Mr Edgar Granville and Sir J. H. Morris-Jones (L. Nat.), tabled an amendment, adding the following words to the Government’s confidence motion:— “ And in order effectively to carry out this declared policy requests the Government to take immediate steps fully to mobilise the whole resources of the nation upon the basis of total war, so that our forces may be adequately equipped with guns, tanks, aircraft and ships, to reorganise the propaganda news service behind realistic diplomacy, to undertake a more intensified policy of home food production, and for these purposes appoint a small War Cabinet, irrespective of party and without departmental responsibility, to include the Dominion statesmen.” Messrs J. Maxton, J. McGovern, and Rev. C. Stephen, and L.P. members, tabled the following amendment to the Government motion:— 44 This House regards what has happened in Greece, as repeating what happened in Norway prior to the formation of the present Government, as another indication of the disastrous development of the war, and urges that it is essential that the National Government should be replaced by a Government which would appeal to the peoples of Europe under Nazi rule to support peace on the basis of a Socialist Europe.’* On April 29, the Prime Minister, Mr Winston Churchill, said that in a debate on the progress of the war the following motion would be submitted: 44 That this House approves the policy of His Majesty’s Government in sending help to Greece, and declares its confidence that our operations in the Middle East, as in all other theatres of war, will be pursued by the Government with the utmost vigour.”