BEST FOR BRITAIN
DEMOCRATIC FREEDOM
LABOUR PARTY DECIDES
NO DICTATORSHIP
| (British Oflclal Wireless.), . (Received January 26, 11 a.m.) BUGBY, January 25. The Executive Committee of the Labour Party yesterday declared its opposition, to independent or group dictatorship whether from the Eight or from the Left and its adherence to the system of Parliamentary democracy. Tho resolution adds that tho executive "holds that the best and, indeed, the only tolerable form of Government for this country ia democratic Government with a free electoral system and an efficient Parliamentary machine for reaching effective decisions after reasonable opportunities for discussion and criticism! In so far as any statements which are at variance with the declared policy of the party on this question have been or may be made by individuals, these are hereby' definitely repudiated by the National Executive." " Tho newspapers interpret the last sentence of the resolution' as the rejection of the plan recently advocated by Sir Stafford Cripps for a Socialist Government by emergency powers, i
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 22, 26 January 1934, Page 7
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165BEST FOR BRITAIN Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 22, 26 January 1934, Page 7
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