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Show Briton Sees O No Menace InSocialism During the five-year incumbency incum-bency of Great Britain's new labor government the empire will travel the Washington high-way high-way rather than the road to Moscow, in the opinion of Frank Ongley Darvall, British consul for the intermountain states, who addressed the Sugar House Rotary club Thursday at We-asku We-asku Inn. Mr. Darvall, journalist, journal-ist, author and lecturer, was deputy director of the American O division of the British ministry of information throughout the war, at the conslusion of which he came to Denver as consul for this area. Actually, the labor government's govern-ment's program for nationalization nationaliza-tion is moderate, and falls far short of the complete socialization socializa-tion many Americans seem to expect, the speaker declared. He explained the composition of the British labor party which has a large representation in the business and professional classes as well as in the trade union group, and pointed out that Prime Minister Atlee and most of his cabinet members by background as well as by experience ex-perience are practical, cautious men, seasoned in politics and business as well as in governmental govern-mental administration. "In many ways, Mr. Atlee compares with Mr. Churchill, as does Pres. Truman with Pres. Roosevelt," he said. 'The present pres-ent leaders lack some of the glamor and personal magnetism of their predecessors, but both are shrewd, honest, cautious and practical." Mr. Darvall intimated that the nationalization program would ' be largely limited to the Bank of England, the coal mines, public pub-lic utilities and railroads, and to the land itself only to the extent it was necessary for the government to expropriate land holdings to more effectively carry on the tremendous job of reconstruction and rehabilitation rehabilita-tion of war-damaged areas. ' As a matter of fact, he said, the new government will no doubt prove a disappointment to many of the extreme socialists social-ists of the labor party by its conservatism, but it will carry out the mandate of the people which an analysis of the vote indicates was simply for a trend toward socialism within the , framework of capitalism. The speaker was introduced by John James, veteran Salt Lake insurance executive, and manv years British vice consul for this area. Guests introduced at the meeting meet-ing included J. Lee Anderson, Tom Norris of Oakland. William Kock. Lt. Winston L. Thatcher, Clarence S. Burtchall of San Francisco. Lt. William Birch Fred Rasbnnd. B. A.- Maxwell and Fred W. Shafer. new. assistant assist-ant to the president of Westminster Westmin-ster college. Membership in the club was voted to C. G. (NeaD "White. manager.pf the Sugar House branch of the First National Na-tional bank of Salt Lake. |