l'u llateralism
George Watson, Joel Clompus, T. J. H. Bishop, Dame Janet Vaughan and others
The Limitations of NATO ' Sir Stephen King-Hall tialein for a Newspaper Charles Foley ' be Monument Brian Bond Cif and the Consumer Gordon M. Williams ;re( Shoot the Obstetrician Mrs. Sonia Willington west in Criminology' Hermann Mannheim `jtst Side Story Desmond Donnelly, MP 511thiltment in Films /an A. Cameron, V. F. Perkins and Mark Shivas
Uh*.at'lte ATERALISM
....sit is already late in the day to protest, but the fai°11ttunal use in the British press of the word 'uni- lateralism' where 'neutralism' would fit the context otter has led to some seriously misleading reports " both the Liberal and the Labour assemblies. 64unilateralist, in terms of thc current defence de- kite, is surely one who believes his own nation should tips don nuclear arms at once and without negotia- 4"4. The official Liberal resolution at Eastbourne junrMed that the British Government should do $j..„‘ lh, is, and Mr. Gaitskell, since the failure of Blue til'ax, now seems very close to the Liberal position. 44 e Liberals, in fact, have been unilateralist for years, toLtile Labour leadership, much less certainly, for N7, M onths. But the Lort-Phillips amendment at 4h4 eurne, which accepted all this, sought to add undertaking that Britain should also withdraw 1;111 NATO, and so, by inference, did the successful hetiution sponsored by Frank Cousins at Scar- 144",uilla• The word for all this is not 'unilateralist' eutralise—or, if your conscience is sensitive and %elk, 'uncommitted.' It was neutralism that was ttecelssue at Eastbourne and Scarborough: Labour rt b 1149 it by a tiny majority, the Liberals rejected hilbkYi eight to one. ,ea,,Uwhile, clever people, including Mr. Gaitskell thij;", 80 about talking as if you cannot have one tiroaiwithout the other. Even if this were true it fiber net excuse verbal confusion : and it is not true. acee Policy has long since drawn a firm distinction, the 1/th113 unilateralism and rejecting neutralism; even trom'arnpaign for Nuclear Disarmament refrains kt101, adopting resolutions against NATO in the tols"1"18e that members like myself would not gas_ '` them; and many of us at Eastbourne cer- the voted for the official resolution condemning 4114,,,ritish Bomb on the grounds that it represents ef disloyalty o the American alliance.,—Yours
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