No Conditions!

(Tuesday) Chairman Boyd is seeking to establish a dangerous precedent in putting resolutions to Conference subject to reservations proposed by the NEC. If the mover refuses to remit, then the resolution stands or falls exgctly as drafted and no amount of ‘interpretation! can alter its meaning, Anthony Greenwood was one of the worst offenders yesterday aided and abetted by Bro, Boyd. No one should be in any doubt about Anthony's ability to play with reservations. ‘Subject to reservations! he was for colonial freedom in Guyana and the near east. When he showed what the reservations were: gassing school-children in Bahrein, and giving Guyana to the CIA, he established a pattern which has mede such equivocations world-famous as examples of hypocrisy, VIETNAM (Wednesday ) “Against the background of world poverty and the surging discontent of which it is now producing among more than half the people of the world. The Western nations have so far produced no policy to match the magnitude of events, That discontent and the revolt or revolution which it brings in its train, are as natural as the revolt of the Englishmen in the seventeenth century against the claims of Charles 1, or the revolt of Frenchmen in the eighteenth century against the luxury of King Louis! Court or the revolt of the American colonists against the blind tyranny of George III. It is borm of the same spirit which inspired the Chartists and the early Socialist movement in Britain. It will not be put down. The only reputable policy for socialists is to ally ourselves with the forces of social revolution and to prove by our deeds that our aim is not dominion, but honourable partnership."