"ONE CHANCE REMARK AND YOU ARE GONE!"

Chronicle (Levin), 17 November 1947, Page 5

"ONE CHANCE REMARK AND YOU ARE GONE!"

Received Sunday, 11 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 16, Mr. Ernest Bevin, in a speech at Britstol yesterday, referring te Air, Dalton 's resignation as an example of how difficult public life was in Britain, said: ''One chanec remark and no matter how successf'ul you have been you are gone. It is the tragedy of being otr your guard for a minute." Apart from any seleet committee oi inquiry into the ineident whiqh resulted in Air. Dalton's resignation tne Labour Party will insist on its own private inquirv, and it is probable that at this inquiry Air. Attlee's part ih the aifa.ir will be critic-ised, says the Daily Alail 's political correspondent. Labour Commoners were'saving vesterday that in similar circumstances it was usual for the Prime Alinister to speak on behalf of the Governinent either to defeiul, condemn or excuse tiie action of a Alinister instead of leaving him to make his own c-onfession. Some Labour Commoners are so bitter about Mr. Attlee's silence in the matter that it seems unlikelv that in private at least he ean escape a great deai ot eriticism, and to this extent Air. Dalton 's_ resignation may yet have iarreaching effects. The Barrow-in-Furness branch of the Amalgamated Engineering Union sent a resolution to the national executive oi the union requesting it to inform tne Governinent that unless it was preparea to dismiss incompetents in the .Cabinet and stop the obvious and continuous blundering it should resign.