The Co -operators and a " Peace Alliance " The
" Peace Alliance," the most hopeful manifestation of the variously-named Popular Front movement, has received what looks like a mortal blow in the house where it was born. The Peace Alliance idea was launched by Reynolds' News, which is a leading organ of the Co-operative movement, and a section of leading co-operators has strongly supported it. At the annual Co-operative Congress on Wednesday a motion commending the Peace Alliance w...s defeated by 4,492,000 votes to 2,382,000, Mr. A. V. Alexander, M.P., being one of its most vigorous opponents. The meaning of the vote is that Co-operators favour a political alliance neither with Labour nor Communists. It is a vote which on the whole clears the air ; an opportunist alliance reaching from Liberals to Communists, with no common basis but a desire to turn the present Government out, could have nothing constructive, stable or cohesive about it.
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