The Archive · 1938

Labour Non-Confidence

Motion in Commons

Opposition Attack on Foreign Policy Opens London, Dec. 19.

The opposition motion of non-confidence in the Government's foreign policy was presented in the House of Commons today by Mr. Hugh Dalton, former chairman of the National Executive of the Labour Party, who proposed, "that this House has no confidence in the foreign policy of His Majesty's Government."

Mr. Clement R. Attlee, Leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party; Mr. Arthur Greenwood, Mr. Albert Alexander and Sir Charles Edwards.

It was generally expected that the House would vote on the motion tonight—United Press.

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