LEFTIST LABOUR LEADER RESIGNS FROM WILSON GOVERNMENT
Frank Allaun, a prominent figure in the left wing of the British Labour party, resigned his post as parliamentary private secretary to Colonial Minister Anthony Greenwood March 5, The resignation came as a protest over Prime Minister Wilson's slavish. support of U.S. aggression in Vietnam,
Allaun added his name to a list of signers of a motion in the House of Commons calling on Wilson to stop backing. President Johnson.
Left-wing leaders in the Labour party found it difficult from the beginning to stomach Wilson's foreign policy, which turned out to be a bare-faced continuation of Tory imperialist policy. The increasing danger that Johnson's course in Vietnam would trigger World War III has alarmed the whole world. Public opinion in England could not be sealed off from the rest of humanity and placated indefinitely by soft words mixed with sweet-smelling smoke. from Wilson's pipe, Uneasiness has now begun. to mount over the situation in Southeast Asia, .
Allaun's resignation is but one of the first consequences of this turn. There will be more to come if Wilson decides-he has no. choice but to continue cheering as Johnson drives both. of them straight toward disaster.
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