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I hope you will carry no resolution of an emergency character telling a man with a conscience like Lansbury what he ought to do…It is placing the Executive in an absolutely wrong position to be taking your conscience round from body to body to be told what you ought to do with it.

Ernest Bevin

If anyone asks me who was responsible for the British policy leading up to the war, I should, as a Labour man myself, make a confession and say: "All of us". We refused absolutely to face the facts. When the issue came of arming or rearming millions of people in this country... we refused to face the real issue at a critical moment. But what is the good of blaming anybody? We cannot make our action retrospective whatever we do. We have to start from now and try to do the best we can.

Ernest Bevin

It is placing the Executive and the Movement in an absolutely wrong position to be taking your conscience round from body to body asking to be told what you ought to do with it.

Ernest Bevin