“LEADERS OUTWITTED.”
LABOUR CRITICISM. (British Official Wireless.) Received May 7, 10.57 a,in. RUGBY, May 6. Speaking at a Labour Party nicotine' at Cambridge to-niglit, Dr Hugh Dalton, M.P., expressed the view that the events in Norway, which had lowered British prestige abroad, had shaken confidence at home- —not m tne certainty of the. ultimate Allied victory of which he declared his renewed conviction, but in the directive organisation and personnel of the country’s war effort. “Only our fighting men, soldiers, sailors and airmen, have done well in Norway—and they have done magnificently—but our political leaders, as so often before, have been outwitted and outpaced by our adversaries, he added.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 134, 7 May 1940, Page 7
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