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LABOUR PARTY MANIFESTO. “We confess to apprehension in facing difficulties in partnership with allies who, as experience has taught us, cannot be regarded as reliable, above all in times of difficulty and tension,” states the British Labour Party’s manifesto in discussing the proposal to form a Popular Front of political parties of the Left. “This is clearly the case with the Communists. Their policy is devoid of any certainty. They are committed rather to manoeuvre than to principle. They would be capable of stabbing us in the back at any time, or involving us in joint responsibility for their political indiscretions. With the Liberals the position is different, for they, at least, do not attempt to manipulate Labour Party policy from within. But the experiences of 1924 and 1929-31 teach us that, whatever the intentions of many of the Liberal rank and file, the official Parliamentary Liberal Party is uncertain and unreliable. It does not act as a‘ body. It is liable to desert us on critical occasions. We, therefore, conclude that the facts do not warrant an approach by the Labour Party to other political parties. We shall go forward, however, in no spirit of exclusiveness.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 August 1938, Page 3
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200POPULAR FRONT VETOED Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 August 1938, Page 3
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