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WINS CONFIDENCE VOTE

Mr. Churchill On Top Of His Form No Coalition, Says Mr. Greenwood

Honolulu, Mar. 12. Pearl Harbour and other installations here would be wiped out if force air an enemy struck today, wrote a military reporter in to- day's Honolulu "Adver-

tiser."

Just back from viewing the Army and Navy war grames, the reporter said Hawaii's de

than they fences are wonker were when a Japanese carrier plane force struck on Decem- ber 7th. 1941.

He said Army, Navy and Maline olliers who requested that their names not be used told him that the islands have insufficient equipment and mon to but a strong attack.

The

entire fighter plane strength in Hawaii islands to day is less than 75, of which 30 are outmoded P-47s of the The rest Seventh Air Force. are Navy and Marine fighters, equipped many of them not with radar for nightfighting,

he wrote,

London, Mar. 12.

The Labour Government tonight weathered by an overwhelming margin its most severe Parlia- mentary attack, defeating Mr. Winston Chur- chill's motion of no confidence by 374 votes to 198.

At

the end of three days' debating, the. House adopted the Government's White Paper plans for dealing with Britain's direst economic crisis since the industrial revolution. The vote was taken immediately' after Mr. Churchill's manoeuvre had been defeated 371-204.

There was a minor upset in

the results of the division in

on

that Mr. Clement Davies and 12 Liberal membera of the

vote

Mr. House did not Churchill's no confidence mo- tian, which худн an amend ment to the Government motion. The Liberals had been expect. ed to side, solidly with the Tories as they did on the second. division. voting with Mr. Churchill's forces against the Government plans.

The Liberals explained pri- vately that they abstained from voting on the Churchill censure motion because the Conserva- tives, if in power, would not adopt the measures which the Liberals believed necessary to save the country.

and cheers, but for the most -part-Mr.—Churchill-was-heard-}---

in pin-drop silence. As He castigated the Cabinet Minia- zers present, he glared at them and shook his finger like n scolding housewife. — United Press.

Brilliant, But Not Convincing

Mr. Arthur Grech- every four prisoners, whereas we have only an official to wood, Lord Privy Seal, look after every eight wage described Mr. Churchill's carners or producera!"

very bril- Time and again Mr. Chur-Speech as a chill rose to the height of his liant Parliamentary per- oratory. He was merciless informance but most un- his personal attacks against convincing. The amend- Cabinet Ministers

was Mr.ment

intended by poalte him, singling out

Sir Mr. Churchill as a vote Attlee, Mr. Alexander, Stafford Cripps and Mr. Dalton of censure on. the Gov-

each of whom at times was

ernment. visibly embarraaned.

seated on-

"Class Warfare" "In their class warfare," he cried, "Government have no right to appeal to the spirit of Dunkirk."

He continued: "The first ob ject of Government's planning should be to liberate and en- It was the second time in the courage the national native 20-month life of Prime Minis energies and Henius of our ter Attlee's Government that race. The second stage is to The military reporter anid Labour has had more than 200 guide and aid all the forces of the total number of bombers votes cast against it. That op- those native energiea to gen- is less thun 30, The Seventh position figure was reached also | erate into the right channel." AAP has no bombers except late last year on the vote for Mr. Churchill then reached B-17 equipped only for ro the transport sationalization the point of his speech, scue operations. No army field bill. Labour holds 394 seats

regard Government's

"We

is set up to handle B:298, in the House and the Conserva-coutinuance in office as a grow-

Acrimonious

He said the ground,defences | tives 197. include less than ten mujor Fadar installations and half of them do not normally operate because of the lack of trained personnel. Two anti-aircraft battalions function but one searchlight ift is Inopera. tive-United Press.

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The double division came at the end of a day of acrimonious debate, highlighted by Mr. W. Churchill's castigation of the Government with his best invective, at the top of his wartime oratorical form.

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The lender of the Opposition was trying to rally bin support- ers in their common hatrest of the Labour Party, he continued.

At the end of his speech, Mr." Churchill had stated that he did "So not want a coalition. far as we are concerned he is not going to get one."

The Conservatives in the Inst eighteen

nineteen months, he said, would not have successfully grappled with this breakdown of the, old system. They would not have tried to build a ne system in harmony with modern needs.

"No"

He went ON: "Either the country must

Would, the miners, rállway 20, down in measureless crash or the Gov-workers and other transport ernment must drop its Socialiat workers have responded with legislation by freeing industry such superhuman efforts to an Churchill in appeal by Mr. and enterprise from the tram- mels in which they have been peacetime, Mr. Greenwood mak

ed. The answer was "Noo" entangled and the sense of na- tional unity restored at the earliest stage. That in the choice upon which 'our fate de pends."

The Conservative bencher

cheered loudly when Mr. Chur- chill said: "We do not aspire to coalition. We do not grudge the Ministers their offices and certainly not their cares. None- theless, we must earnestly hope Mr. Churchill said that and the Prime Minister and his slocks, contrary

state principal colleagues will take to

the right turning at thin-grave ments by Sir Stafford Cripps,

moment in British history. were higher in the winter of 1944 than they were in 1939. but charged that in April 1946 they were down to less than 7,000,000 tons when a "ittle ordinary forealght ́and" a little planning" were necessary.

He said Britain had 469,000 more civil servants than before the war, at a cost of 250,000, 000 a year.

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Two Convictions

"I have two convictions in my heart:-- One is that somehow or other we shall survive, al- though for a time on a lower level than hitherto. The second la that things are going to get worse before they got better." Cheers continued for several minutes after Mr. Churchill sat 'down. The war lender apoke "The Socialist Ideal is to re- for about an hour and 20 duce us to one vast Wormwood | minutes to one of the most Scrubbs." he said. "Of course crowded Houses in several it is true that at Wormwood; weeks. At first there were aup Scrubba there is one official to porting and Opposition Jeera

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Mr. Churchill's history was

not auch that the common peo- Britain would have ple of trusted him in peacetime, he said.

Referring to Mr, Churchill's charge of class warfare, Mr. Greenwood said that the Con- servatives had started it.

"They mean an far as they can to prevent our programme being put on the Statute Book.

assure them they are not no- Ing to do it. The Labour Party stands potid. We shall play the Parliamentary game fair. We shall not be deflected from our purpose," Mr. Green- wood said.-Reute..

Cyprus

To Stay As It Is

London, Mar. 12.

The Secretary for Colonies, Mr. Creech-Jones, was cheered when he told the House of Com- mona today that no change in the status of Cyprus was templated by the British Gov- ernment..

con-

He had reminded the delega- tion from Cyprus of this deci- slon,, In the interview ho had accorded to the delegation which presented a memorandum on the subject of a union of Cyprus with Greece, he alluded further to the economie and social de velopment programme involving Kubstantial assistance from United Kingdom funds and plans for the Introduction of a more liberal constitution.

"I expressed the hope of the British Government that

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