ROLLED ROUND WORLD

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 109, 21 February 1950, Page 3

ROLLED ROUND WORLD

RECENT SPEECH BY CHURCHILL ‘ ■ % NEW SITUATION MAY HAVE ARISEN (N.Z.P. A.—Copyright) (Rec. 11.15 aim.) LONDON, Feb. 200. Mr Churchil told a jam-packed meeting at Manchester to-night that the words he spoke about the atom bomb at Edinburgh last week had “rolled around the world, and may have created a new situation.”' Mr Churchill said to 2000 in the hall and another 6000 who heard the speech by loudspeakers in seven other halls: “I do not Avithdraw a \vord I said, and I repeat that Christian men should not close the door upon any hope of finding a better foundation than the atomic bomb for the life of the self-tov-mented human race.”

Mr Churchill, who said at Edinburgh last week that if he became Prime MiDistey he Avould try and bring about top-level talks on atomic control, declared: “Socialist politicians and party managers take a poor view of democracy. They have vehemently protested against my raising the great ? question of the atomic bomb and our relations with the Soviet, on which the future world peace depends. They hold that'such subjects should not be mentioned at election time. The new situation that may have been created by my Edinburgh speech cannot make things worse, and may possibly bring us nearer our heart’s desire. It Avas the mass of The people who suffered in the Avar. Politicians should not monopolise the debating of supreme issues. Ido not take the Socialistic view that all should be reserved for commissars. Labour seems to think that material domestic matf/’S are all that British democracy should,talk about.” Mr Churchill said .that Labour had tried to ram down British throats obsolete party fads about nationalisa tion and “scattered our remaining wealth Avith wild profusion.” Wearing his famous square Derby hat, and Avaving the inevitable cigar, Mr Churchill took several minutes, even Avith the help of burly policemen, to get through the crowd into the hall for his speech, Avhile supporters cheered and yelled f “Good Old v Winnie.”

Mr Attlee shared a common platform with Conservative and Liberal opponents at a furniture factory in his own constituency at WalthamstoAV tonight. About 500 factory employees attended the meeting. They politely applauded *Mr John (Conservative) and Wing-Commander A. W. Pirn (Liberal), but clapped loudly for Mr Attlee.'