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IN AND OUT OF PARLIAMENT

MR

by Eruest Thurtle, M.P.

[R ATTLEE'S position as leader of Labour Is unchallenged. This was manifest at Scar- borough, where his spirited speech earned him a prolonged ovation.

Howover one looks at it, tho. Promier's achievement in leadership must be regarded as remarkable.

Thirteen years have passed since he was first. elected to lead a party which has never been particularly tractable, not to say docile.

Many there were in those days who declared that this quiet, unassuming man was only a stop- gap, whose reign would not Inst long.

*

M

WELL, the years have rolled by.

And now,

even after a premiership which has already lasted nearly three years-incidentally a period of great domestic and external difficulty--he is still firmly in the saddle, with no rival oven in Fight.

In the language of the Turf, never has out- alder landed long odds so effectively.

谳

*

MICHAEL FOOT'S election to the Labour

executive is an indication of his popularity with the rank and file, for it is the votes of the delegates of the local Labour parties which deter- mine the result in the case of this section of the ruling body.

A little 'un cashes in

on Russia's

soft soap

Y

week.

TOU will notice I am not wearing my hat this I have taken it off to salute the astutest poli- tician post-war Europe has produced-President Paasikivi. of Finland.

He has dismissed his Com- munist Minister of the Interior, Mr Leino-against whom the,. Finnish Diet passed a vote of censure. And he has replaced another Com- him, not with munist, but with a Social De- mocrat, Mr Kilpi.

Comin-

A moves, Soviet peace form high-up-he had attended the top secret Bialystok conference as a delegate-told me that Truman's defeat in the U.S. elections would be followed by a Soviet offer to aid for Eastern discuss Marshall

be Compromise would Europe. based on non-Intervention by either the Soviet Union or the U.S. in the affairs of those countries.

A few days after our talk camo Molotov's offer to Bedell Smith, The peace offensive was doing nicely,

And now Paasikivl, with magnificent piece of political liu- Jitsu, has fumed the Soviet coft soap campaign against them.

vince of

Finmark-and

Нодта

that

POLE

3.4.4.0.

BUROPE

want to ba

of France

It is no small thing for a com- parative newcomer like Michael pouat, as he has done, an old and well-established member in the person of Philip Noel-Baker.

* *

NERVICE on the executive should

be an education for him.

So for his reputation is based mainly on vigorous and at times acidulous criticism along conven- tional Unes. A necessary func- tion, of course, but not the whole duty of political man.

Now, 05 A member of. Wie governing body of the Labour movement, the expositor of theory (somewhat pontifical on occasion) will be brought up ogainst some of the difficulties of marrying theory to

fact.

At 37 he is not too old to be- come wiser by the experience.

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HERBERT MORRISON anel I Aneurin Bevan provide a great contrast in oratorical styles.

was most marked at

in the

IN ARCTIC STRATEGY Spitzbergen is a stopping-stone between Rusals and America, Oslo dislikes Russlan airstrips there.

will be faced with a abandons her westward orientation that they showdown any time now. "Time is

This And that is no good to Norway. extremely short" is a phrase met me again and again in my talks. The Norwegians, on the other hand, Scarborough, where the former was

believe, do not want to enter the Western cautious and admonitory, here on Northern Norway Union. They do not Moscow, the Norwegians

guise of a wise old counsellor, Aneurin WEJ confidcut, particularly the neighbouring pro- tied up with the French part curly whereas

sentbing, and aggressive in turn, on the not if de Gaulle comes into power It is a most fascinating move.

Yet I doubt if there is anything For it deprives the Finnish

Spitzbergen archipelago. According In France and they do not like the At this moment, just when the to this theory the Russians

want prospect of being alller

two men in the Cabinet room. Communists of their control of Kremlin are anxious to follow up Finmark and Northern Norway for Spain or of Italy, should these two like this difference between the

Powers join. the police, secret and uniform- their new friendliness with Wails ice-free submarine bases.

My guess Ja that in approach- ed. And this is indispensable shington over their joint parentship

and administrative to them if they are-to-stage & with some really Impressive" love the event of milltary operations in written by an American guarantee.problems,-in-that place whero.

of the Zionist Stato and weigh-in Spitzbergen is an essential base in is an alliance with Britain under-ng legislative coup before the Finnish electors making, just when they are all set the Arctic. The Russians

assume nothing but objective calm register their overwhelmingly to exploit the rift in Anglo-American coal-mining concessions there, meg Mr. Bevin has been informed of test prevails, their minds show no great

divergence. anti-Communist and anti-Soviet relations to entice Mr. Marshall into

own a considerable amount of ter sentiments in the July General

separate ritory on which it would be a fairly military negotiations, simple matter to install Election. The dismissal of

just when bases camouflaged Leino is, therefore, a direct

they are all mining operation. challenge to the Kremlin, who

out to reas- are as anxious to make sure of Finland before the elections as they were to make

sure of Czechoslovakia.

PEACE FLUTTER BUT what makes me salute the

SEFTON DELMER'S Newsmap

havo

So what they are now negotiating

wishes. But Bo far he has not answered.

as part of the

STALIN'S TASKS

I

Already the Russians have caused mure Ameri- са

that

alarm by laying down a number of thou hair stripa för elvillan transport.

sometimes

little un-

couth they

little brother

They

SAYING 'NO'

have gone

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believe Paasikivi will be proved right and nervous Norway wrong. DUT in public they

D different functions. Stalin and Molotov, as I sec

The a long-term, them, are following not a short-terra, policy.

They could well afford to stacken off a bit in Europe, concentrate on

Meanwhile

discharge

I.

Welsh Minister of Health offers the party gathering a gloss of stimulating champagne, whereas the cockney Lord President gives. it a dose of unpalatable (though.

service,

the champagne goes

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discussion of and furniture command

really have a kind heart I SAY the Norwegians are showing re-establishing their fold over necessary) mèdicine. -wham! courage as well as nervousness organised labour in France and Italy, President is not so much

Naturally made it clear let American clumsiness in wielding Panikivl because they have

the better, as it did at the courage of his move as the

steps in and that they will resist any attempts to the big stick of Marshall aid do its down timing of it. Paasikivi could

amacka n encroach on their territory.

bit towards estranging and dividing Scarborough. pebble in have defied Moscow in March

But the auditors bear no grudge out of their the Western allies. And they could Goliath's

medicine, when Stalin issued his "Come

way to announco publicly through count on the American public grow against the giver of the into my parlour" invitation to

Foreign Minister Halvard Lange ing tired of putting up billions of for they know it is good for them, I shall not be surprised if he gets that Norway will turn

dollars for rearmament apparently as part of their political health down any for no purpose. Finland.

For I believe the Soviet offer of an alliance, if it is But Paasikivi preferred to Kremlin will want to be on their made. And they did this although

away with it.

switch they would stall. He concluded pact best behaviour just now. It will the only evidence

that

Moscow

their campaign to the East, to with the Russians-much more not look good to Miss America if might be contemplating such a step cautious and less embracing they start kicking

was a rumour believed to have been India, Burma, China, and Indonesia Soviet-controlled countries which are ideally suited for Communist agitation and Com- than what the Kremlin really Finland around. wanted. Then he waited for One country where they will be sources.

munist totalitarianism. these Finland

next the lesson of world reaction to walching

weeks is Norway. I have just re-

There are signs that this is in- Czechoslovakia to sink in.

deed the policy. Sink in it did. The Kremlin turned from spending a few days to get her defences in order. It la her men decided this, anyhow, is there. I found Oslo the most jittery a big job.

But the political capital I have yet visited. But at

part of preparations is proving how I read current develop the same time full of courage

almost as difficult. ments-that world opinion determination.

like a military W06 becoming dangerously

Norway would The Norwegians are fittery be-

with the Swedes. But hostile to them. A period of cause they are convinced that Nor- alliance soft soap,

reassurance, and way is next on the list for one of the Swedes, who have made a great deal of money out of keeping

With India' tucked behind splitting tactics was called for, those Soviet offers of alliance.

unlike noutral during the last two wars, All

Soviet over Europe

And above all because, and satellite diplomats

got busy in Paasikivi, they do not believe in have refused to enter any alliance Iron Curtain it would not be long off-the-record talks prophesying the Peace offensive. They expect with the Norwegians unless Norway before the Fall of Europe.

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