Evening star., 1945-06-05

dous task OF finishing off the Jap
anese tyrants."
MY friends, I must tell you that
a Socialist policy is abhorrent to
British ideas of freedom" he de-
clared. Socialism is, in its essence,
an attack not only upon British
enterprise but upon the right of an
ordinary man or woman to breathe
freely without having harsh,
clumsy and tyrannical hand clapped
across their mouths and nostrils.
Fears Political Police.
II will go further. I declare 1t
to you from the bottom of my
heart that no Socialist system can
be established without a political
police. No Socialist government
conducting the entire life and in
dustry of the country could afford
to allow free, sharp or violently
worded expressions of public discon-
tent. They would have to fall back
on some sort of Gestapo."
The fortnight tone of the Prime
Minister'S opening address indicated
no holds would be barred in the
campaign. He is expected to make
two more radio talks. The gov
ernment-controlled radio also is
alloting time to Labor and Liberal
leaders.
Il stand for the sovereign free
dom of the individual within the
laws which freely elected Parlia-
ments have freely passed." Mr..
Churchill continued. Our present
opponents. or assailants, would be,
I am sure. shocked to see where
they are going. '''
They say: Just let us Just ma
tlonalize anything we can get hold
of according to the size of our ma
jority and get the Bank of England
into the hands of trustworthy So
cialist politicians. and we will 90
ahead and see what happens next
But let me tell you that, once
Socialist government begins mon
keying with the credit of Britain
and trying, without regard to facts,
figures or confidence, to manipulate
it to Socialist requirements, there
is no man or woman in this country
who has, by their thrift or toll. ac-
cumulated nestegg, however small,
who will not run the risk of seeing
it shrivel before their eyes"
Mr.. Churchill said the new Ma
tional government stood for mainte-
nance Of the purchasing power of
the pound sterling-"and we would
rather place upon all classes, rich
and poor alike, the heaviest burden
of taxation they can bear than slide
into the delirium of infiation.'
In discussion of his efforts toI
hold the coalition government to-
gether until the end of the war with
Japan. Mr.. Churchill intimated he
the Pacific conflict to last
another year. If the three parties
had agreed to remain in the gov
ernment, he said, it would have
enabled him to promise that there
will be no election for a year, or
words to that effect"
They have departed" he added,
"and We have been left to carry the
nations burden. 1 claim the sup
port of all throughout the country
who sincerely put the nation first in
their thoughts.
I'VE have to bring home the SOL
diers who have borne the brunt of
war and make sure they find
waiting for them food, homes and
work. And then you have to add to
it that out of this demobilizing army
has got to be formed at the same
time new army to 60 out and finish
off at the side of our American
brothers the japanese tyrants at the
other end of the world. Here is a
tremendous task
What mad thing it would be to
slash across this whole great busi-
ness of resettlement and reorgan-
ization with these inf1aming contro-
versies of socialistic agitation. Can
We not get Europe settled up and
Britain settled down before we
plunge out on this hateful internal
struggle?
Leave these Socialist dreamers to-
their Utopias or their Nightmares.
Let us be content to do the heavy
job that is right on top of U.S."