FOR & AGAINST

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 June 1942, Page 4

FOR & AGAINST

MR CHURCHILL’S WAR LEADERSHIP MOTIONS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. DIRECTLY OPPOSED VIEWS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 12.15 a.’m.) RUGBY, June 25. The following motion for next week's debate has been put down in the House of Commons in the names of Sir Patrick Hannon, Mr Norman Bovver, Captain Strickland and others: —“That this House, while paying tribute to the heroism and endurance of the Armed Forces of the Crown in circumstances of exceptional difficulty, desires to express its abiding confidence in the Prime Minister in his direction of the war and assures him of its unqualified support in the introduction of any measures the Government may think desirable for an intensified prosecution of the war.” A motion of censure has also been put forward as follows: — “That this House, while paying tribute to the heroism and endurance of the Armed Forces of the Crown in circumstances of exceptional difficulty, has no confidence in the central direction of the war.” This motion stands in the names of Sir oJhn Fardlaw-Milne, Sir Herbert Williams, Admiral Sir R. Keyes, Commander Bower, Professor Hill and Messrs Hore-Belisha, Bellenger, Haden Guest, Silverman, Dennis Kendall, Levy, Clement Davidson Stokes, Spearman, Neil Maclean, Price, Hall Caine, Horobin, E. L. Granville, Gledhill and Aneurin Bevan.