before. Let us not delude ourselves: we are faced with a very real problems. On the one hand, there is that small but determined group of activists who, having realized their mistakes of last year, are now preparing themselves for the next confrontation. On the other, there is the vast majority-disenchanted and disillusioned by the excesses of those who professed a creed which until recently had so great an emotional attraction.
There is a vacuum of leadership waiting to be filled, and I urge this Government-and I urge you, Sir,-to fill that vacuum before it is too late. Nothing has been said by any senior member of the Govern- ment that gives any indication that it is prepared to meet the enormous challenge it faces. Let it do so before it is too late. Sir, I beg of you, let it not be said of you, and of this Government, as it was said of Belshazzar “you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting"; but rather as Rudyard Kipling had said it: "Let us admit it fairly as a business people should. We have had no end of a lesson, it will do us no end of good".
I support the motion.
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