Scarborough and Vietnam

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Vietnam continues to be the most important problem on a world scale. There are rumours afoot that the N.E.C. of the Labour Party, via the conference arrangements' committee and utilising the three-year rule, is going to attempt to stop a discussion on Vietnam at the Labour Party Annual Conference, Any attempt to impose such a "head-in-the-sand" policy would not only be scandalous, it would be completely opposed to the feelings which exist in the Labour Party on Vietnam, There are less resolutions on Vietnam on this year's agenda than last but every one is critical of American policy and British support for that policy, The first to appear on the agenda is under general resolutions on the Labour Government. From Esher C.L.P. it lists a series of points which conference should instruct the Parliamentary Labour Party to follow. Its third point class for support for the N.L.F., medical aid to the liberated areas of South Vietnam and support for all anti-colonialist freedom movements, This very admirable resolution suffers from the curious lack of mention of North Vietnam, Under the Vietnam section, there is another resolution which takes a solidarity position: from Bute and North Ayrshire C.L.P., this too fails to mention North Vietnam but calls for "full support ... the victory of the Vietnamese and the National Liberation Front", clearly implying support for the North, The rest of the resolutions vary from Edinburgh West C.L.P., which merely reiterates U Thant's (now abandoned) three points, to Brentford and Chiswick C.L.P., which calls for dissociation from American policy, self-determination for the Vietnamese, the ending of the attacks on the North and South, and the withdrawal of all foreign troops. The resolutions from South Ayrshire C.L.P., High Peak C.L.P., Bolsover C,L.P., and Derby Borough L.P. all show there is still considerable confusion about the question of United Nations intervention and peace talks. It is to be hoped that the compositing will result in the Chiswick resolution being the main opposition resolution on the agenda with the Bute and North Ayrshire one retained as the one around which an educational discussion can be organised,