Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-11-18
BY The Associated Press

of a Labor Party revolt against
Foreign Secretary Bevin charged
today that the formation of "a
complete and exclusive Anglo
American tieup"-as urged by
winston Churchill-had been
followed by a steady split of the
world into American and Rus
sian blocS.
r. H. S. Crossman, opening a
tensely waited debate as chief
spokesman for the So Labor ''rebels, II
told the House of Commons:
Go to Paris or any other capital
and you will find there is no doubt
whatsoever that in the course of
the last 10 months Great Britain
has lined up on the American side
In this struggle"
Attlee Ready to Ask Vote.
Prime Minister Attlee and other
government ministers, ready to call
for a vote of confidence, listened
intently as the young magazine
editor Legislator defended his con-
tention that Britain should follow
an independent. socialist" foreign
policy.
Mr.. Crossman said the Labor gov
eminent had "drifted away" from
its prediction stand that Britain
should be mediator between
America and Russia and that this
gradual drift into the American
camp" had occurred without any
clear government statement.
There was" he declared, "only
one clear statement-that made (by
Mr.. ChurchilD at Fulton (Mo)
that was o clear and downright as
sertion Of a certain policy. 1t stated
quite clearly that there would be
an Anglo-American alliance.
Says Alliance Exists.
~I am assured in America
that the Anglo-American combined
chiefs Of staff still exist. I was
told on relatively good authority
that most secret intelligence is still
pooled between the two countries.
"Now that Germany, Japan and
italy have disappeared, about whom
is that most secret intelligence be-
ing collected, and If it is being
pooled is it not committing us de
facto to an alliance?"
Being aired in Commons was a
demand of the IS Laborite legislators
for an independent socialist foreign
policy" tied neither to the United
States nor to Russia, to prevent
.an otherwise inevitable conflict
Between American capitalism and
Soviet Communism"
This demand, slap at Mr.. Bevin's
policies, was in the form of an
amendment which the So offered to
the Labor Party's legislative pro-
gram as presented by King George
VI in an address opening Parlia-
ment last Tuesday.
No Threat to Attlee.
The dissension was not regarded
as a threat to Prime Minister Att
lees government. Most observers
said in event of sharp criticism Mr..
Attlee probably would demand a
vote Of confidence, and they pre-
dicted he would win in such a case
by wide majority, since few if
any insurgents would go so far as
to vote against the government.
Dissident Laborites were repre-
sented as seeing the recent Repub-
ncan election victory as a swing to
big-business rule in the United
States.
They feel too, said the London
Observer, that "by tying our econ
omy to Americas we shall be unable
to protect ourselves from the tend
ency Of capitalism to plunge from
boom to slump" and that "by allying
ourselves with America in the politi-
cal-diplomatic field we shall promote
the division of the world into two
giant blocs which are bound to
clash in war"
Churchill Criticized.
Konni Zilliacus, 1eftwing Laborite
and insurgent leader, said in
speech last night his group wanted
Britain to take a leading part in
international affairs by cutting
loose" from the United States. He
criticized the ideas of Mr.. Churchill
and termed the current foreign
policy winston and Water"
Richard Stokes, another Labor
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