2 NOVEMBER 1951, Page 4

Political acrimony is being kept well stoked up in some

quarters. The Conservatives having made it perfectly clear in their Election manifesto that they intended to denationalise road haulage, the Road Haulage Association has prepared a memo- randum outlining a plan for achieving this by gradual stages. The daily papers generally gave it the moderate prominence it deserved as an item of news—all but the Daily Herald, which, making it the principal item on its front page, splashed over it in the blackest type it possesses the heading : HAULAGE BOSSES PLAN FIRST TORY GRAB. Labour fighting back, I suppose. It might be better to fight a