ЧЛЕНЕНИЕ И ОБЪЕДИНЕНИЕ ПРЕДЛОЖЕНИЙ
1. It is conceivable that Sir Hartley Shawcross could be come a judge but unlikely that Mr. D. N. Pritt, Q.C., expelled from the Labour Party for his left-wing views, will become one.
2. An old, almost forgotten statute of King Edward III, the Justice of Peace Act, 1361, was dragged out to imprison Tom Mann in 1932 on suspicion that he might commit an offence.
3. All this, says the programme, "would provide the basis for a new, close, voluntary and fraternal association of the British people and the liberated peoples of the pres ent Empire to promote mutually beneficial economic exchange and co-operation, and to defend in common their freedom against American imperialist aggression."
4. As in the United States, these struggles forced some re lief concessions from the local government and made unemployment insurance a living issue, eventually to be translated into national legislation.
5. And in Canada, in August 1930, with no better choice than this before them, the Canadian people kicked out Prime Minister Mackenzie King and elected Richard B. Bennett, who was full of demagogic promises, declar ing that he was going "to blast his way into the mar kets of the world."
6. It remained open to the House of Lords to insist that nothing should be brought before it without a clean mandate from the electors, unless it was done in the early life of the administration.
7. The answer to this is of course that the 'revising' pow ers of the Lords only come into operation when the Tories are not the government: when the Tories are in office its legislation goes through without delay.
8. How and when they intend to proceed with these propo sitions is not the point, the intention is clear, and the purpose of the so-called reforms is equally clear, to
strengthen the Lords as a buttress of reaction against the advancing working-class movement. 9. It (Good Neighbor policy) was the adoption of more efficient methods of imperialist penetration. It constituted a system whereby the Latin American peoples had the semblance of national independence, but with the substance of general control remaining in the hands of the United States.
10. The treachery of the reformist leadership in 1931 was not the treachery of the individuals, it was part of some thing more fundamental, that is, the crisis of the whole policy and outlook of reformism.
11. At the 1947 Labour Party Conference the matter came up again in the form of a specific resolution from the Vehicle Builders which demanded a broadening of the Diplomatic Corps, the speedy replacement of ambassa dors "by people more in touch with the aspirations of the common people of the world", and the training of more "understanding personnel" for diplomatic posts.
12. Our modern law of real property is simply founded on judicial evasion of Acts of Parliament, which, however, was of such a flagrant kind as could not take place nowadays.
13. The more skilfully any public figure or concern deserv ing of censure or criticism conceal their activities, the harder it will be to criticize without being confronted with all the difficulties and dangers of having to justify when not in a position to access to all the facts of strict proof of them.
14. It (the Incitement to Disaffection Act) was condemned by eminent legal authorities and M.P.s of all parties, who together with the National Council for Civil Liber ties, which waged a great campaign against it, secured valuable amendments.
15. Apart from Metropolitan Police, which contains the central Criminal Record Office, the Central Finger Print Bureau and various other central institutions, including the all-important Special Branch, his (Home Secretary's) control of the provincial forces is ensured by his power to issue regulations under the Police Act of 1919, regu lations which do not have to be laid before Parliament.
16. This is made crystal-clear by Hart, a retired Home Of-
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ficial, in his book, an admission all the more valuable because in general he favours the police.
17. In 1919 the Police Bill was introduced, the main pur pose of which was to force men out of the Union and join a government stooge Police Federation which the Bill was to establish.
18. The real issue here, of course, is not that of a 'split' between the unions and the Labour Party, it is a strug gle over policy, with important trade unions as well as the majority of the constituency Labour Parties challeng ing the right wing.
19. The U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. could and should live to gether harmoniously in this world, despite their different types of social systems, but Wall Street is opposed on principle to such harmony. This is a policy which, if not halted by the people, will lead to war.
20. Lip-service is paid to the Health Service (by the To ries) followed by the demand of administrative efficiency and economy and correct priorities. On these grounds they could, and will, slash the service to ribbons.
21. They (United States reactionaries) likewise cynically sabotaged co-operation with the U.S.S.R. during World War II, in the hope that Hitler's forces would so butch er the Red Army as to make it virtually powerless after the war. And at the present time they are busily seeking to organize the capitalist world for an all-out atomic war against the Soviet Union.
22. The remnants of the once-strong syndicalist movement in Latin America now consist mostly of old immigrant workers from the Latin countries of Europe. And in the United States and Canada the once very active I.W.W. has vanished from the scene of labor struggle.
23. The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation of Canada stands vaguely for a "co-operative commonwealth", based on production for use, not for profit. It is for the "socialization" of banking institutions and certain basic industries, also the transportation and communication systems.
24. In 1936, in an effort to prevent the re-election of Pres ident Roosevelt, the du Ponts launched the American Liberty League, with Al Smith as its front-man. Every fascist grouping in the country rallied behind this organ ization, which was filled with a deep spirit of reaction.
25. As we have previously remarked, the general crisis of capitalism operates in a twofold sense. That is, as that system breaks up, socialism comes increasingly into ex- istance.
26. In the eighteenth century tea and tobacco had become as much the national food as beef and beer. And ever since the seventeenth century the adventurous and the discontented had been going across the ocean, first to the American colonies, then to the United States, to Canada, to Australia, to South Africa.
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