Show Eden Pledges to Support rt Bevin Ravin Foreign Policy LONDON Nov 1 14 UP UP-An- UP An- An f t thony Eden pledged the Conservative Conserva- Conserva Jt tive Uve party's support in the he house t of commons Thursday to o the gov- gov I foreign policy and peacetime conscription programs f which have touched off a major majorr fir r revolt within the Labor party t Eden former foreign secret secretary ry and heir apparent of oC Winston Churchill for the Conservative party 1 leadership ader attacked the governments government's administration of the British zone zone iii in Germany but gave gaffe unqualified indorsement to the hotly hoUy disputed government foreign for for- ei eign policy The revolt within the L Labor bor party ag against the policies of Fore Foreign For For- e eign S Secy y Ernest r Bevin was so 80 widespread d that there was corridor corridor corri corn dor talk of the possibility Bevin might be replaced eventually by Hugh Dalton DaIlon who favors cutting British policy lo loose se from froth the theU U United States and an attempt to conciliate Russia The effect of or Edens Eden's out all in indorsement indorsement indorsement in- in of Bevins Bevin's policy polley upon the Labor bor party schism was not nol apparent i immediately nm b but t was unlikely unlikely un un- likely to aid id the government In any effort to placate critics who already have charged that the Labor party is merely m continuing the Conservative party's foreign fo policy Edens Eden's criticism was centered largely on th the s situation in Germany Germany Gormany Ger- Ger Ger Gor- many many where he charged that there was only half halt way appU application of the Potsdam terms Potsdam Stand Whatever the merits or demerits demerits de- de merits of the Potsdam agreement he said it must stand or fall as asa as asa a n. whole hoie He asked ked that removal of in industrial industrial industrial in- in pl plants from rom Germany for reparations be ha halted ted unless s all the allies cooperate in reestablishing reestablish reestablish- ing German economic life Responsible sible Laborite acknowledged that Bevin w was In some som danger of being overthrown n not so so much by direct votes o ohis on his foreign policy polley as ns by wholesale absten abstentions In the eyes of the critical rank and file and file Bevin was regarded as not irreplaceable They believed Hugh Dalton could step into his shoes at once and d swing Britain's foreign policy more more nearly in li line e with the Labor party's policy polley a as put f forth rth during the election campaign cam cam- ampa am- am pa I Oppose Policy The crux cruC of or the revolt was the signing by 44 Labor rebels rebels' rebels rebels-of of an ah amendment to the kings s speech opening the new session of parliament par par The amendment censured the governments government's s foreign policy I T The e parliamentary Labor party comprising L Labor bor members of Parliament nt met Wednesday cx ex expressly pressly to compel the rebels to withdraw their amendment to the kings king's speech which was written by t the c cabinet ab net and outlined the I program f for r extending the socialization socialization social social- of Britain I A resolution n by y Herbert Morrison Morn Morri Ii son lord pr president of of the council censuring the rebels received votes That was was' a a- majority of those voting those vot voting ng I but it still left 33 voting against and abstaining plus 11 members embers who stayed a way away from the meeting I Thus the cabinet was able to must muster r rr r only 32 of Its strength in the house of commons which no now has members Abstentions during test votes loom large in the British parliamentary parliamentary parliamentary parlia parlia- technique For example N Neville Chamberlain resigned as I wartime minister not because he hela la lacked ked a actual an actual majority In commons com com commons mons mons' when he demanded c ca a a av v vole le of o U the starred starred ill expedition to N Norway but because he was Wa sensitive to the fact that 80 members member of his own party abstained abstained ab ab- ab- ab stained from voting in his is support |