Foreign News: Skirmish Won

The Labor Party, with Cockney Herbert Morrison leading the pack, was out to goad Winston Churchill. Up before the House of Commons last week was Churchill's plan to denationalize Britain's long-haul trucking business, first of the promised Tory programs to undo six years of Socialist expropriations. Churchill tried to stay on the sidelines while other Tories pushed the bill through. Morrison was determined to get at The Old Man himself.

"Why could not the Prime Minister, he being the author of this deed, have the courage to get up and expound the policy of the government?" Morrison taunted. "Why must he ......

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