IN HER FIRST full speech attacking the movement for disarmament Margaret Thatcher has compared the activists of CND with the appeasers of the 1930s.
conference weekend, she gave the opening broadside of the Tory election campaign.
of the horrors of Nazism, Thatcher asked: 'Would it have been morally right to have handed over to Hitler total control of the most terrible weapons which man has ever made?' cher's arguments been running a series of articles on appeasement in the 1930s. What hypocrisy!
the 1930s had nothing pacifism but was based on sympathy with Hitler. Prominent by its absence from the Daily Mail's peasement was Lord Harmsworth, the most prominent of all the appeasers and founder of ... the Daily Mail.
Second World War paying him sufficient money for a life of luxury - why the United States government!
Germany and the Soviet Union today is also an odious one.
Whilst Churchill Western leaders were refusing to open a second front against Hitler, nearly twenty million Russian people died as a result against the USSR.
have now are a result and reaction to the proven policy of the Pentagon war planners not as a result of Hitlerite expansionist aims.
way in which the US used their nuclear capacity against Nagasaki at the end of the second world war when Japan would have fallen to conventional warfare in a matter of months.
gressive aims of US imperialism is turned into a parable proving that Japan was a nuclear free zone and look what happened!
The increasing Tories' arguments reveals that the issue of disarmament is their major Achilles heel with the approach of the general election. The majority of the electorate is firmly against the stationing of the missiles in Britain. Even Tory supporters are evenly split on the issuel ment to press home this advantage by pinning the badge of war-mongers on the Tories, standing firm on the policy of unilateral disarmament and launching a campaign in 1983 that can missiles and stop the re-election of Thatcher.
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