RUSSIA LAND OF PRIVILEGED FEW
ReceiV^d Stuiday, 7 p.m. LONDON, Jan." 4. Mr. Attlee, broadcasting from Chequers, charged tiie Russian Governmeut with threatening othei' nations of Europe with an ideological economic and strategic imperialisin. The Communist Party had ranounced the doctrines of individuax freedOln and political democracy and rejecfced the whole spiritual heritage of Y/est ern Europe. The history of Russia provided a warning that without poiiticai freedom, collecticism could quiCKly lead to oppression and injustice. A privileged few were a growing phe.no ntenon in Communist Russia and the gap between the liighest and lowest incomes was constantiy widening. Mr. Attlee said .the British people, the Labour Government, were giving a practicai lead to the world — a ieacl which was needed to preserve the neritage of European civilisation and a lead which a Conservative or Eiberal Government could not give. He said a reconciliation was necessary between freedom and authority. Both were needed. Tltis could be achieved only through democratic socialism or which the British Labour Party was the outstanding champion.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 January 1948, Page 5
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