from a Parliamentary correspondent
Mr. Sydney Silverman, Labour M.P. for Nelson and Colne, asked Mr, Wilson in a private question: "what action he proposes to take to promote a peaceful solution in Vietnam in view of the most recent, air raid on North Vietnam by U.S. forces?", The Prime Minister replied that the urgent diplomatic activity to obtain a cessation of the hostilities was continuing,
To this statement, Mr, Silverman countered, that the raid went "far beyond the hostilities of earlier days," and "Do they not amount to an act of plain, naked wart", Mrs. Ann Kerr, Labour M.P. for Rochester and Chatham, commented that large sections of the people of the United States would welcome a statement by the Labour Government dissociating itself from the attacks on the North.
After Tory boos, Sir Alec Douglas-Home got up and assured Mr, Wilson that the Conservative Party was behind him and would support him "in the action he has taken so far in this," and anything he thinks "necessary to support our American allies in this matter,"
Readers of The Week should spare no effort to back those Labour M.P.s who are struggling to alter Labour's policy on this matter.