Show PEERESS FLAYS FLA YS WASTE OF LIFE LONDON May 20 T VIrginIa Jr Virginia Virginia- i born Lad Lady Nancy Astor accused Home Secretary Herbert Morrison I Tuesday of causing a useless waste 0 of lives and property in inGerman inGerman inGerman German air raids and declared Britain was losing the battle at I home We Ve are losing the battle on the home front and will go on losing I It unless we are more active and speak fearlessly and try to get things right she said in debate on the second reading of a bill to unify unIty Britain's firefighting services The peeress de declared lared that the country was getting a little discouraged discouraged dis dis- dis about the home front where there had been no leader leader- ship With biting phrases she asserted that that the fact tact the government Jo was bringing In the bill at hand after alter six months of fire blitz and bomb blitz shows there was something something something some some- thing fundamentally wrong on the home front Lad Lady Astor said she didn't blame Morrison entirely I entirely I blame the whole government It is time Ume we got someone to fight this battle in Britain who has not such profound respect for local local- authorities she went on Morrison is former chairman of the London county council whose c control of fire Ire brigades would be belar lar largely ely curtailed by the bill The minute a town has been blitzed the first thing the local authorities want to do is cover up their mistakes the peeress said You let them cover dp tip mistakes for tor six months 1 I wasn't going to have them covered at Plymouth where Lady Astor is I In London 1 it is a public scandal One local authority may be ef efficient efficient ef- ef but another Is useless j ef-j |