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Jany wise political party hoping to take the place of the present Government in office would, it might be thought, do all in its power to encouragè such a move- ment. And all the more because it has had evidence from many
3A Wyndham Street, Hong Kong. quarters of the feeling among its own supporters, numbers of whom have come out openly for a mobilisation of all progressive forces against the Government and in support of the League policy the Labour party professes to be our only salvation. On a recent, week-end, for instance,
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This conference, it is true, was a conference on a specific issue; it did not bind its participants to anything more than common action on Spain. But it is sure- ly plain that if events shape themselves as so many fear they of this kind may a movement may came to mean a great deal more. United action may be forced on all progressives how- ever much they may cherish their previous affiliations. A wise party, therefore, would leave the door open.
It would not choose this moment for an attempt to crab common action with other people by issuing an intimation. that it is quite competent (thank you) to "capture power" at the [next election by its own unaided efforts, quite able to "achieve Socialism" and to "protect demo- cracy. The boasts may seem to most of us to be empty and, in the light of the party's recent history, a little absurd. But so obsessed are some of the Labour. No-one can say for the moment
leaders with the perfection of precisely what future develop their own mutual admiration so- ments will be in the fresh ten-ciety that the party's official or
can write deploring the sion which has flared up in gan
"supreme tragedy" that people Europe with Czecho-Slovakia in the Labour party should be
Hong Kong, Monday, May 23, 1938.
CRISIS OVER BRITAIN
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most uncomfortably in the cen- saying that in grave times like tre. Much less safe would it be these Labour might well seek allies. Sir Stafford Cripps puts to predict the action of the Bri- this view realistically in the cur- tish Government in the event rent."Tribune": that worst fears
were realised.
"It is probable that to-day there In present-day conditions, is no immediate prospect of a it is not surprising to purely Labour Government, since find the. Manchester Guar- the Labour party alone and un- dian strongly criticising the aided may well not succeed in dislodging Chamberlain. With Labour Party for its genius in the help of the trade unions and political ineptitude.. The journal the appeal of an alternative Na- rightly points out that its lead-tional Government of the Left ers are afflicted with an itch of this might be accomplished. The fussiness. They are in the midst of progressive forces could be psychological effect of the unity
of great menacing forces; they very considerable throughout the are facing, according to their country."
on a
own declarations, a supreme crisis International policy would not which may well submerge all be hard to arrange. Domestic that they stand for. Their answer policy would, he thinks, be more is to stage feeble fights in the difficult "clearly any idea of House of Commons, which the real Socialism would have to be Government throws off with put aside for the moment" but something like contempt, and, for even on that agreement the rest, to bury themselves in fairly radical programme might their minute-books and confer- be arranged. It would be at ence resolutions and to appeal best a temporary expedient, but tearfully for "loyalty" to pre- is it not worth the price? Sir cedent. There is growing up in Stafford Cripps thinks it is. The Britain a movement against the chairman of the Co-operative Government and its foreign party, Mr. Barnes, thinks it is, policy that is far more powerful and his party conference sup- than anything the Labour party ported him. The Labour execu- has been able to rouse. It is tive would be well advised to more powerful because it is con- think again, give its manifesto tributed to by people of all writers a rest, and put first shades of political tradition and things first. If it will not give a of non-political tradition: There lead it might at least be ready is a national uneasiness. Now, to follow:
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