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a common anti-war attitude as has been supposed. Co-operation
only included a small minority of strongly anti-war
Liberals in any case. Even than, Liberal and Labour
groups did not necessarily unite in anti-war activity,
still lops formulate a common electoral policy. The
Socialists had little patience with the section of
Liberal entrepreneurs and old fashioned Xonconfor&tcta
of the Lawson typo, They also tended to be rather
contemptuous of the Liberal inability of organise
meetings effectively, ; hyaänan blu od the jingo
success at the North=pton meeting on the bad arrangements
made by the Radicals.
(I)
The difficulty of finding
Liberal candidates may explain why some noata! -as at
Preston$ - were left to the Labour, Representation
Committee.
(2)
The uneasy and temporary nature of the Lib-Lab alliance
helps to explain the relative lack of success of the
p4aca Movement. The other fabtor was the apathy of
the Nonconformiots,
. traditionally ono of the more
anti-imperialint groups whä had filled out 'the anti*-
Imperialist agitations of the 18Eola.
(1) Further Romininc`oncsn, ` p. '+1B«
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(2) P. Poirior, The advent of the Labrur Party, London 1958,
P. 123.