Plain Speaking at Labour Peace Fellowship

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At the annual week-end school of the Labour Peace Fellowship, held at Grinstead (Sussex), several M.Ps. made highly critical statements of e Government, Jcues Dickens, the nevly clécted nember for Levwishen West, said thet thie vas "neke or break year for British social — : cisions p ai e people would "begin the search for new po col avenues." et the pment aarlaanaibany motion calling f or a Mdrastic te tion in military spending and “withdrawal from Malaysia, Singapore and the Persian Gulf", Mr. Dickens said that not a single person spoke in favour of the Government's policy. The chairman of the week-end school, Norman Atkinson, member for Tottenham, expressed the opinion that when a vote was eventually taken on this motion, it would show “overwhelming support" for withdrawl. Stan Orme, MP for Salford West, also spoke of the need to cut comm tments East of Suez, and expressed his fear that the present Labour Government "might go the same way as that of 1945."