Sir Stafford Cripps' Memorandum Sir Stafford Cripps has once again
thrown the Labour Party into confusion. Last week the Labour Executive rejected his proposals that the Labour Party should take the lead in. forming a Popular Front uniting all the progressive elements in the country against the Government. Sir Stafford answered with a memorandum recommending his proposals to all the trade unions and Labour parties in the country; and the Executive followed with a condemnation of Sir Stafford's action and accused him of creating strife and disunion in the party. It is too early to say what the result will be of Sir Stafford's latest revolt; all his previous revolts have affected nothing. But the conflict throws a curious light on the mentality of the Labour Executive. Sir Stafford Cripps asserts that since Munich there has been a large increase in the opposition to the Government; that the Labour Party has failed to enroll these added opponents of the -Government in its ranks; that without the assistance and co-operation of other groups the Labour Party cannot win a Parliamentary majority; and that, therefore, the Labour Party cannot and will not be able to form an alternative Government in the near future. It is doubtful if anyone in the country outside the Labour Executive would seriously deny these propositions.
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