Meanwhile, Britain's position in the present conversations with Russia was also clarified in the House of Commons this afternoon by Mr. R. A. Butler, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs.
He wound up the day's debate after most spokesmen, including the Labour leader,. R. Attlee, the Liberal leader, Sir Archibald Sin clair and Mr. David Lloyd George, and Conservatives such as Mr. Winston Churchill and Mr. Anthony Eden, advocated a full-dress alia ance with the USSR.
Mr. Butler explained why the Government preferred its own proposals, which fell short of a military alliance, to Soviet schemes. But he added that the Government was carefully examining Soviet objections in the desire to reach an agreement, "Though less comprehensive than a military alliance, we believe the British proposals to be better designed to give effective support where such support is most needed. And it is a policy which, we think, is more in harmony with the views of the other Governments most closely concerned, and less calculated arose doubts and difficulties in he declared. a "s Government has
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