ADVOCATE OF SOVIET BEING TAKEN INTO PARTNERSHIP
LONDON, October 9.
Mr Konni Zilliacus, a Labour M.P., speaking in Newcastle, _ said that if war came it would “split the Labour Party from top to bottom”. A war would drag on for years, and peter out in revolutions, civil wars, and chaos. The only certain victor would be the evils of a police State and dictatorship. It was vital that the Labour Government, for the sake of the country’s economic recovery and stopping the drift to war, should invite the Soviet into a partnership with Britain and the United States in settling the affairs in the Middle East, including international control of the Dardanelles and the Suez Canal. It also meant solving the Berlin problem honourably by reverting to Labour’s European policy of solidarity with the working class and regarding Socialism as the basis for economic reconstruction. War was the final disaster and the uppermost penalty for moral, intellectual, and political bankruptcy m international affairs.
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Grey River Argus, 11 October 1948, Page 5
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