LABOURITES GAG AT BACKING U.S. MARINES
Harold Wilson's crawling subserviency to President Johnson in matters of imperialist assaults on tiny weak countries is beginning to turn a few more stomachs among Labour members of parliament. On May 10, twenty of them presented a motion in the Commons urging the government to refuse to support American policy and actions in the Dominican Republic. The motion reads:
"That this House, noting that the Rebellion in the Dominican Republic was against a military dictatorship and for the purpose of restoring to office a President described in The Times as 'the first freely elected head of the Dominican Republic for 38 years,! deplores the build up of United States forces, notes the criticisms by many Latin American states of the United States policy and actions in the Dominican Republic, and urges her Majesty's Government not to give support to the policy and actions of the United States Government in this respect,'