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and through of fight of bosses their all be all ture and deployment in permit their deployment in NATO Cruise missiles in Britain. A section of the 2,000 strong audience at the Europeen Nuclear Disarmament meeting in central Hall, London, on the 10 July. Speakers included EP Thompson, Medvedev. In a lively debate from the floor, several speakers stressed the ON 31 May the Labour Party held a special one day conference. By an overwhelming majority, the delegates decided that:
"The Labour Party opposes the manufacBritain of Cruise missiles and the neutron bomb and refuses to Britain by the United States or any other country?
This was the view of the overwhelming majority. But Bill Rodgers, the party's spokesperson on defence has come out with the completely opposite view. In the pamphlet 'Defence Disarmament and Peace: the case To Cruise miss menin Bot forcefully in favour of the Tories' plan to site Suzanna York, Ken Coates and Zhores defence is a sick joke.
Stewart of Fulham, Vietnam;
secretary!
from NATO.
That Labour's defence spokesperson should be nout party policy But when we probe the publishers of Rodgers' little pamphlet, the joke gets even sicker. They are the 'The Labour Com mittee for Transatlantic Understanding' (!)
This body has among its leading officers Lord former Labour foreign Roy Mason, former. British viceroy in Northern Ireland; and to cap it all, Frank Chapple as treasurer and Terry Duffy as No doubt, these people are well placed to 'understand' the American point of view. Their committee is a typical front organisation for cold war propaganda, conveying the views of the State Department and the Ministry of Defence. We can be assured that this committee suffers from no importance of focussing not only on Europe-wide disarmament, but also on the demands for unilateral disarmament by Britain and British withdraw financial problems. on transatlantic agencies.
transparent operation would for world peace and 'defence' Peter Shore, who now fight to kick out Labour's cold warriors.
Numerous such committees in the '50s and early '60s were lavishly financed by the CIA. It would indeed be suprising if the new transatlantic committee didn't receive the financial blessing of some The fact that Rodgers can get away with such a shows the need to democratise the selection of the party leadership. There can only be a tiny minority of the party who moment contemplate choosing Rodger for their spokesperson on questions o He should be replaced with some one who supports the official party policy. The same applies to supports Thatcher's boycott of the Olypmics. The campaign against Cruise missiles should go hand in hand with the