RESPONSIBILITY FOR WAR EFFORT

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 188, 6 May 1940, Page 9

RESPONSIBILITY FOR WAR EFFORT

Resignation Of Leaders Suggested (British Official Wireless and Press Assn.) (Received May 5, 7-5 p.m.) LONDON, May 4. Mr. Herbert Morrison (Labour), in a speech at Southampton said: “I have a suspicion that Mr. Chamberlain, Sir John Simon and Sir Samuel Hoarc, whose weak foreign policy landed us in war, are primarily responsible for the relative weakness of our war effort. I urge them to consider whether their best service to the country may not bo by way of resignation.” Mr. Morrison said the recent events in Norway constituted a setback which it would be self-deception to hide and cowardice to evade. He deprecated attempts to present these events as a British victory. “It is of real importance that our people should be able to take blows aud at the same time keep uP their morale,” he said. “I believe they are so able, but it is not enough to be able to receive blows. We must give them. “Speed and yet more speed is what we need in Government administration and military effort of all kinds. We must not always fear to take the initiative. We must reject the silly superstition that democracy is incapable of speed. That is a dictatorship lie.”