Two former Labour Ministers, Mr. Gaitskell and Mr. Wood- row
Wyatt, deserve great credit for speeches they made last week-end, designed to keep rearmament out of party politics— not, indeed, out of intra-party politics, for the whole aim of the speeches was to destroy the contentions of Mr. Bevan and Mr. Crossman. There is in fact no difference between the official Labour policy and the official Conservative policy on the steps needed to make it possible to "negotiate from strength" with Russia, but it is extremely important that Labour members should make this clear on public platforms as well as in the House of Commons. If a non-partisan approach to rearmament as well as to foreign policy could be cultivated by the solid majority of the two parties there would be great gain both at home and abroad.
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