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Chronicle (Levin), 8 September 1947, Page 7

Received Sundav, 7 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 7. The Governnlent was trimming . it3 four-year plan aad conceiitratiiig on essentials, said Mr. Herbert Morrison, speaking at a Labour Party gathering in London. The revised plan eould be announced when completed. It was unreasonable i;or erities to ask the Grovernnient to produce in a disorganised and uneertaiu world. Fot reasons lai-gely outside the Government 's eontrol Kurope's recovery had been slowed and the Government had had to modify it.s plans quicklv. The Government had. been reluetant to modify them earlier because the alternative — to restriet multilateral trading by^, rendering sterling ineonvertible — would have slowed British recovery and that of the countries vvhose recovery was vital to Britain. The Daily Herald says the policy for meeting the econoiuic crisis which the Federation of British Industries' executive placed before Alessrs. ■ Ernest Bevin, Dalton, Isaacs, Barues and Sir Stafford Cripps at Downing Street would result iu drastic cuts iu social scrvices and the abandonment of the iron and steel nationalisation plans. The F.B.I. urged the Government to take tliese measures even at what the F.B.I. called the rislt of under-employ-inent tliis winter. Mr. Harold Alacmillan, M.P., has called a rally of Conservatives, Lib-' erals and the moderate elements of tlie Labour Party to forge a "new democratic movemeut to save Britain," reports Keuler. ^Ir. Alacniillan declared that both Liberals and Conservatives, oach of whom condemned the Government 's grave mishandling of the nation 's intemal and external eeonomy, sought a balance between individual rights and the claims of the comlnuuity. "Only a new democratic iAovement can save Britain," he said. "If this cannot be acliieved within the present structure of Parliament, tlien Parliament must be dissolved. " He added that the Labour Government was no longer representative of the people.