Word: labourers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cloth or ton of steel imported means a lowering of the standard of living. This refusal would also apply to services-which could presumably be rendered only in the form of manufacturing operations, transport and the like. Mr. Andrews refers to the British navy. This was built by British labour, in British time -neither of which commodities are acceptable to America as debt payment. Further, all decent bankruptcy laws provide that the debtor may retain the means of self-preservation. With regard to Mr. Andrews' second point, surely a country which has taxed itself far beyond what any American...
Your leading editorial for October 29, entitled "Conservative Labour" comments on the collapse of the British Labour Party with enthusiasm but with little knowledge. The whole editorial is notable for the fund of ignorance which it displays. I quote the last paragraph...
...basically Conservative British people have stood the Socialistic experiments in a spirit of fair play. They have allowed the Labour government full rein, and gave it enough rope to hang itself--which...
...know that it was the "spirit of fair play" that motivated British voters in returning the Labour Party to power, but it does seem a shame that this same spirit should not have swept them on to giving the Labour government the "full rein" mentioned in the editorial. Perhaps such an excess of "fair play" would not have been in accord with what the editorial writer so aptly calls "the fundamental soundness of the English nation...
...Labour government, not having a majority in the Commons was totally unable to carry out its "Socialistic experiments." What the British people gave to the Labour government was enough rope to enable Lloyd George and the Liberals to tie it hand and foot and nothing more. L. J. M. Halle, Jr. '32. Cambridge, Mass...