Liberty Plus Security and Progress

...Instead, the Conservative Government immediately opened negotiations for the rendition of the Concession...

...Attlee, Bevin, Morrison, < Tipps, and Alexsnder had concurred ia every decision, every move, made abroad...

...They carry on their vicious anti-British propaganda day after day,, week after week...

...Th* new Labor (Government ha* already supported Washington in refuting '<· recognise the puppet regime imposed upon Bulgaria by the Soviets...

...In all democratic lands, the working people, th* intellectuals and the middle class are aware of the limitations of their own economic power and they note, with increasing perturbation, the reluctance of the possessors of great economic power to part with it...

...Ix>ng live the King...

...And then, of course, one has to remember that men who are in opposition will clamor for action which they would not themselves dream of taking if they had the responsibility for implementing it...

...In many countries in Europe, a terce battle is now raging between anti-totalitarian and pro-totalitarian force...

...For at the end of 1902 I sailed for China, and except for occasional furloughs in England, have lived abroad ever since...

...How did Atlee end his Victory broadcast...

...Modern popular movements for a better life are, therefore, essentially movements to influence and capture the state...

...Thereafter the British people will decide whether *r not th* Labor program *f gradaal socialization •hall be carried farther...

...Amid the noise of Nazi bombs, Great Britain found national harmony...

...Liberty Plus Security and Progress british Socialism Offers Alternative to Communism and Toryism By Louis Fischer Excerptsfrom a ipeetk of til* rally held by the H6.ro/ forty to celebrate the BrHith labor Farty Victory...

...Contrast this action with that of the Conservative Foreign Secretary, the late Sir Austen Chamberlain, when the British Concession at Hankow was overrun by Chinese Reds...

...No one in England challenged th* result...

...Nothing could be more ridiculous than th* suggestion that Britain had veered ** fai to the left as to become communistic...

...The challenge of our age is to find the men and parties mho will adjust the way we live to the way we could live if we took advantage of our me rhaniral and technical progress...

...It is a great and historic achievement...

...In China, the Mai Donald Government joined with the rest of the Treaty Powers in forcibly upholding the integrity of the Chinese Maritime Customs at Canton, when the disruption of that Service was threatened by the late Dr...

...There were occasion* when it seemed stronger under a Labor regime than under a Conservative government...

...A common language makes it inevitable that the Press on both sides of (he Atlantic should occasionally engage in hostile polemics...

...Some of those basic Industrie* which are either sick or monopolistic will be nationalised, but the economy will remain mainly privately owned, with appropriate social controls...

...But hi Great Britain there ha* never been anything comparable to the Hearst, McCormick and Patterson . prese in thia country...

...Britons residing abroad are, of course, more interested in the foreign, than the domestic policies of their Government, especially when living in a country, like China, which had only just emerged frm th* turmoil of the Boxer upheaval, where one realized the extent to which one must rely upon the protection and support of our Foreign Office, and armed forces...

...British foreign policy ha* seldom been allowed to become the sport of party politicians...

...founder and editor of the "China Year Book," and of "Oriental Affair*," a monthly review published at Shanghai...

...For example, Labor would not vote for the armed forces necessary to fulfil Britain's world-wide commitments, but would clamor for sanctions and other actions which would inevitably have plunged the Empire into war...

...neither will it survive in the struggle with totalitarianism...

...It was, I suppose, natural that one should prefer a Conservative to any other British regime— a Government that carried on Pal incision's traditions of the "strong arm" and the "watchful eye" of England...

...The Mediterranean Fleet was mobilized and sent to Alexandria...

...in solving the postwar problems of prosperity and peace...

...If it succeeds America will be profoundly affected...

...On* could admire his war leadership without extending similar admiration to some of his colleagues, Beaverbrook, Amery, Brendan Bracken, tt alia...

...he was exchanged in October, 1942, «nd c<me to the USA after a year in the British Ministry of Information in London...

...The Labor Government will maintain the splendid tradition* of Itntish democracy, and there will be a certain continuity of foreign policy, with euch modifications ss are dictated by the changed circumstances, the philosophy of the Socialists, and by justice...

...The same thing will happen in the United States if business and the Administration fail to provide full employment and effective international organization...

...Sun Yat-sen...

...The absence of freedom is as degrading as unemployment...

...Harmony, not unity...

...should realise that ia this struggle, th* British Uber Government ia ear ally on the aide of liberty...

...The Japanese imprisoned Mr...

...And one may be certain that the cardinal factor in Attlee'a foreign policy, as in that of every British Government since President Cleveland's day, will be friendship and cooperation with the United Stales...

...Dictatorship degrades man...

...The affection and respect felt for "Winnie" were not extended- to many of his Conservative colleagues...

...But without economic security, liberty is not complete...

...Americans who want democracy perpetuated will wish Prim* Minister Attlee success...

...At any rate, those who had pressed for mor* vigorous domestic reform*, now were saddled with th* responsibility of implementing them...

...In Asia, the alternative seemed to be, Russian or British imperialism, and some leaned toward Russia...

...I did not expect the landslide in favor of Labor at the late election...

...But just recall the excitement in th* American press when on* British periodica], the Keonomist, published in article critical of American policies, ·» when an obscure religion* publication dared to voice oplniona on the Pretiden-tial election...

...If it succeeds the liberal-labor forces in this country, organized in such parties as the Liberal Party, will rise in prominence and influence...

...The assumption that there will be revolutionary changes in foreign policy, notwithstanding Professor Laski's irresponsible pronouncements, is unfounded...

...The strongest vindication of Itritish policy in Greee* came from a Trades Union deputation headed by Sir Walter Citrine...

...It would seem that, on balance, a Labor Government in the past acted with unexpected firmness for fear of criticism for neglect of British interests by its opponents...

...Every Briton in China expected drastic reactions...

...The change of Government came by orderly constitutional mean...

...The British Labor triumph is a product of th* British people's desire to reinforce liberty with economic security...

...Through their votes they aim to acquire the political weapons with which to control or if need be, assail the Maginot Lines of economic power...

...Woodhead at Shanghai when th* war broke out...

...Even in countries within the Russian sphere of influence, there is still a chance now, thanks to the British Labor victory, thanks also to th* firm stand taken by President Truman at Potsdam and since then on the problems of Eastern Europe, that democracy will not die...

...nor been in England -*· when one was held, since my late 'teens...

...This is what the British Labor Party has now achieved...

...In this article he expresses the reasoned viewpoint of a conservative Brite« on the victory of th* Labor Party...

...Harmony is the cooperation of divergent elements...

...Re-gardlea* of party connections, they realized that it might prove to be a change for the better...

...Unity it totalitar iau...

...After the British Elections Some Misapprehensions Felt by Americans By H. G. W. Woodhead, C.B.K...

...He was editor of th* well-known British newspaper, the "Peking and Tientsin Time*," from 1912 to 1930...

...daring the next Ave year* only the "commanding height*" ef the economy can b* socialised...

...Every American, no matter w hut,Ins economic views...

...HAVE never voted in a British Gen-I eral Election...

...Harmony it democratic...

...I was long enough in England during the war to realize the general lack *f confidence in the Conservatives, so far as urgent domestic reforms wer* concerned...

...and that recent Conservative Governments have adopted a weaker and more conciliatory policy, from fear of being attacked for imperialism...

...A Socialist Government in Britain will net mean Communism any more than a Tory regime would mean Fascism...

...Hence the urge of liberals and labor to enter politics...

...I anticipated a small Conservative majority...

...We were soon* reassured...

...It is insane that a world capable «? producing as we have produced ia this war should count many millions ¦•f human beings who are idle, hun gry, ragged and unsheltered It is fantastic that the world of the buzz tomb, radar, superfortress and atomic bomb should be making peace in terms of the shifting of frontier*, spheres of influence, and imperialism...

...a substantial indemnity and the arrest and punishment of the assassins, as well as the complete withdrawal of Egyptian units from the Sudan, were demanded, and when the last demand was not agreed to, the Egyptian forces were forcibly expelled...

...Until a few weeks before the election, Messrs...

...Despite onr exciting victory in this costly war, the world is still engaged, and will for a long time be engaged, in a fierce struggle between liberty and totalitarianism...

...The mass of the people want lo wrest political power from those who have economic power...

...After the murder of the Sirdar, Sir l.eo Stack, in Cairo, the same administration took even firmer action than one would have expected from say, Bonar Law...

...The result of the election seems lo have been a greater shock to many Americans than to th* British themselves...

...Today, however, there in a third choice: it i* liberty plus security, freedom plus progress...

...Winston Churchill, whose dynamic oratory had welded the United Kingdom and Empire into flaming resistance, lost stature in his election speeches, especially when he virtually accused colleagues of a few weeks previously, who had shared the burdens of the long fight for freedom, of plotting to introduce Gestapo methods into Great Britain...

...exactly the same words as would have been used by his predecessor...

...So it was not surprising that the British communities in the Far East should have viewed the access to power of the Labor Government of Ramsay ?«cDonald with considerable .apprehension...

...With Churchill in office, the alternative that seemed to face European countries was, Russia or reaction, Russia or royalty, and a few chose Russia...

...THE British worker*, intellectual* and middle claai voted the Labor Government into power because they expert it to do a better job than the Conservative...

...Friendship with Soviet Russia will h* another factor in labor'a foreign policy, H. G. W. WOODHEAD, C.B.E., spent forty years in China a* a journalist...