Tories Will Support the Bill
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THE Conservative Party conference I at Scarborough, last Friday, unanimously carried a resolution pledging full support for the Transport Bill, and welcoming the Government's intention to secure the passage of the measure early in the next session of Parliament.
,Mr. T. Enoch' Powell, M.P-, moving the resolution, pointed out that the Government wished to secure an economid co-ordinated systetn of transport which would serve the hest interests of
the nation. ,
" It is in the national interest that our transport resources should be economi
cally used," he said. Nervous people say that the Socialists are' going to come in and renationalize transport Do not believe it. The Socialists have already started to pussyfoot. In their latest policy they said that wherever the public interest required it they would renationalize. They did not say they would renationalize transport. Even now, they are starting t6 run awaY 'from it."
This view vvas underlined by Viscount Hinchingbrooke, M.P., Who. described renationalization threats as " idle boasting."