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In This Articlo, Philip Fothergill, Chairman of the Liberal Party, Discussos

THE LIBERAL DESIGN MODERN LIVING

What Liberals'want is less gov- emment, not more. As the Irish- man put it, we have suffered too long from an absence of neglect. interference and Today State bossing are everywhere increasing. The strange idea persists that this is progress; in truth, it is retreat. Both have been tried many a time before, and always with deplorable results.

Chino was stilled by a bureau- cracy 2,000

years ago. Rome died of the same disease. Feudal Eng- laori, 100, was planned so that everybody knew his station and had to keep to it.

Tyranny in as old as history, and so is anarchy, which is simply letting things rip even when you make It look genteel by Fren- chifying it into laissez-faire. The worthwhile struggle, now as over, is for the freedom of man.

In that sense, at any rate, Lib- erals are in the vanguard. While

PHILIP FOTHERGILL

believe in refeasing the springs The right thing would be to

we bellev

to conscription, nobody

FOR

Bound together not by any denies the danger of the inter-cant-iron Constitution but by tics national situation or the need for of liberty and fraternity, these de national preparedness. But there mocratic nations have a mighty is no basis at all for the imprese lesson

esson to teach mankind. Together slon that the Government seeks they provide one of the vital to create--that conscription and foundations of world peace. No military efficiency are the same action which Britain may be. cail- thing.

ed upon to take in Europe or There are millions of men in elsewhere should be carried out Britain with first-hand experience without the full co-operation and of conscription who know that approval of the Dominions. conscription cloaks lazy thinking and downright inefficient practice. European Rule

It is another example of the pre- Liberals wholeheartedly res- tence that compulsion is the royal pond to Mr. Churchill's moving remedy for success, whereas, in appeal for the creation of a United fact, it is merely the last resort Europe. Bul for Liberals neither of failure.

Europe, the Empire, nor America

twa

Res-

The proper answer to the mills the whole world, and pence will tary problem is to merge the not be established until a world Armed Forces, improve the pay authority has been erented and conditions of service, and which all nations voluntarily sub- build up a powerful, highly train- mit.

and long-term service #f United Europe and the United volunteers.

Nations point in the right direc The same Ideas of effective tion. But no European Union can of personal initiative, we recog-decentralise. Groups of collieries, freedom need to be worked out last, no American plan for world nisc, too, that our complex mounder. competent management, on yet another plane. For many recovery can succeed, no inter- dern society must have certain

should be allowed to apply their years our fellow eluzens in Scot-national order can be established social safeguards. We believe that own policy, make their own deci- land and Wales have had a rea- unless the domestic principles and what we need today is not con- sons, and compete in price and sonable grievance against direc-policies of Liberalism are applied. tml for control's sake, or the

Lion from London, With almost There must be charter of hu scrapping of every control regard-service with other groups.

every Act the populations of these man rights, proper

standards of less of consequences.

Compulsion Curb

protection against Liberals stand for government countries have become more living, social

dependent upon the central Gov- exploitation and insecurity. Planning Curb by consent. In a civilised society ernment. дя the business of trictive practices muat go and there must be a code of law to Parliament accumulates, 60 the that, of course, means the reduc- Cortafnly, Liberais are Interest-protect the rights of the citizen handling, and even the discussion, tion and ultimate abandonment of ed in "planning" to guarantee es-and to create the condtions of of their own special problems be tariffs. The United Europe idea sentiul social services and stun-progress. Outside that sphere comes more causal and perfune-Is bedevilled now by the Ottawa dards of living, to stimulate em-just law there should be no com- tary,

Policy. ployment to provide the frame-pultion except in a national emer- work in which men and women sen recent forms of compulsion

The Liberal answer is to give. Above all, international policy enn organise their own lives and the conditions in which they can are in conflict with this Liberal greater freedom and Bexibility to must take account of the indiv

principle the direction of labour the method of government. Actual and, within the framework prosper and expand.

But Liberals are well aware of and conscription in time of peace. new Parliament Act is needed to of just law, release the springs of the limitations of "planning". We The direction of labour as a set up Scottish and Welsh Legis- personal initiative. take a high view of the import-way of

And so we come back again to a redistribution latures with power to deal with ance of the Individual, and a mo- of our

factor in

huron

institution. them. dest estimate of the ability of even inhumane and ineffective.

every hu

the

of the nosos the

The fact that the Government ! But whatever we do at home Right under greatest administrators to BI-

Britain Kremlin and Transport House the the details of other folk's is at present using its powers only the future prosperity of Tange

of the tentatively should not blind us to is bound up with that

beral takes lives

them.

smallest tinker the for The most important problem on the fact that it took the powers world outside. Thanks to Liberal and enthrones him in the centre the home front is Employment, because it knew in its heart that inspiration, the British Common of the world stage in the pos- But mere exhortations from the they will have to be used inuch wealth stands today as the most ition of the greatest Importance Cabinet and poster campaigns more fully when the economic important experiment in inter- under God. The Liberal Is the from the Board of Trade make consequences of Socialism begin national co-operation the world tinker's champion whether he be

black or white, Jew or Gentile, no more Impression on our stolki to produce rising unemployment. has even seen. workfolk than snow on the Equa-

ICT.

One practical answer is pro- claimed in the Liberal policy of "Ownership for All" which is based upon the belief that indus- trial conditions can be neither just, vigorous, nor free unless pro- perty and power are widely spreed.

Two

Home Rule

Rule By Man

secial population is all matters of special concern lo] Man himself, the finally decisive

The Last Commissioner

For Palestine

By J. L. HAYS

All today pay lip-service to equality of opportunity. But how can this principle work in a sys- Lieutenant-General Sir Alan.although his blue eyes were cold to get nearer the peoples he was

which the Tories have so Gordon tem,

Cunningham, our last with anger. •

sent to rule, but like a good set- long defended, where property is High Commissioner in Palestine, "You know, Hays," he said; dier he had to accept; albeit re- concentrated in the hands of so is the type of Briton of whom "there was a way to solve this luctantly, the security advice of few?

How is it possible when, one is always proud in mixed awful problem. If both sides his subordinates who were res- under the system the Socialists company overseas.

had only left it to us, if there ponsible for his safety.

Armed Escort are settings up, the plum jobs in He looks good. He sounds good. had not been outside interfer the nationalised industries tend to Sir Alan Is always beautifully ence, we could have brought

Even for the mile and a half go to loyal parly members"? tailored, usually in dark pin them together eventually by get-ride-mostly through British ac-

It is far-reaching

ting concessions from them posals "which"make industriat co-❘ He is stim enough and broad--lusi-over a period of years. ownership a reality, put an end chouldered enough to look taller to private monopoly, give fair than he really play to the small man in busi-

hair ahines aver a knen face, "It might have taken a long the Palestine Government Secre- ruddy and finely marked by out-time, perhaps, but it was door living.

ness.

Liberal

pro-stripes.

18.

in

Generous Views His grey

curity zones-from Government House to the "King David Huter font headquarters of Lieutenant- General G. H. A. MacMillan and

Monopoly Curb An American colleague once only way, and it would have pre-olive-green

the torlat, Sir Alan was allocated an Palestine police armoured car to escort his big bluck Rolls-Royce.

It is Liberal palley which offers told me after we had left Sir duced the only peaceful, lasting

solution." safeguards against the abuses of Alan's Covernment House among Who was it who once said that State monopoly. There are some the pine trees on the hilltop only British generals in Pales glaring examples. There is the overlooking Jerusalem: He had time bad shown humanity? suppression by Socialists of long- better keep away from the States established profit-sharing schemes or they will be having him in In the gas industry. Liberals one of those men of distinction would immediately restore and de- advertisements," velop these admirable reforms. Liberals would tackle in a x radical way the problem of Bri-

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No matter, but both Arabs and Jews agree on that point at ners. least. Certainly Sir Alan always His guard at Government held far more generous views on House never dropped below com- Jewish immigration/from war-pany-strength. From watch devastated Europe than any of towers machine-gunners covered His officials-or perhaps than he every inch of the formal gardens.

He Regrets

tish coal, greatest of all our na- During the last two years I was permitted to implement.

A Busy Life Almost certainly tliera has tastic and fatal concentration of to Government- House-American all authority for this vital indus- correspondents, visiting Zionist Sir Alan, I know, also deeply never been a King's represent- try in the hands of one central leaders. Arab notables, British regretted that no real leaders ative with so little social life. board in London.

officers of more senior rank than emerged after the war from Only very rarely was he able to their host, diplomats, and many, among the younger Arabs. indulge his love of chamber many members of international Bir Alan regretted that at his music by attending concerts of committees of inquiry into receptione "Command Perform the local society: Palestine.

ho ances,"

called thom--Arab

But in

wooded the spacious Some, Mattered by the invita and Jewish leaders would never grounds, behind barbed wire and

want readily. Some pre- |

watched mix.

over always by his tended it was a bit of a bothor; | He told me: "They would do guards, Sir Alan had ample scope but I never met ons who had so, perhaps, if I were able to for his hobby-care of trees

exercise, nat later something pleasant to bring them together outside Gov-and for his favourite

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