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ROBERT P. LUDLUM President Blackburn College...
Defense Minister Emanuel Shinwell told the House of Commons last week how gallantly the men of Britain's Gloucestershire Regiment had died in Korea (TIME. May 7). Up rose M.P. Raymond Blackburn, independent ex-Laborite,with a searing question: Why had Britain supplied Red China with thousands of tons of iron & steel, vehicles, aircraft parts, rubber? Wasn't it "high time we ceased to supply the people against whom our boys are fighting...
Caught unprepared, Shinwell sputtered that Blackburn was "inaccurate ... for several months now we have placed an embargo on the export of strategic raw materials to China." But Blackburn was not wrong. He harried Shinwell with data from the government's own Board of Trade. Example: British Malaya had sold 120,000 tons of rubber to Communist China and 40,400 tons to Russia in the first nine months of the Korean war. Tory M.P.s joined the clamor by asking if the U.S. was pressing Britain for a "tightening-up" of the trade with the enemy...
...Bevan protested that he was not anti-American-in fact, said he, some of his best friends were Americans. But "It is not necessary for mankind to walk the way Russia has walked or ... the way America still walks." Sevan's red-headed ally, Barbara Castle, M.P. from Blackburn and one of Labor's left-wing firebrands, went barnstorming in Lancashire. For the time being, Attlee had saved his government. But the fact remains that Bevan. and a handful of followers, by voting with the Conservatives or by abstaining in a division in the House of Commons, could...
...PERCY A. BLACKBURN...