have fought to secure. It is a clear break with the policy of successive conferences: that all nuclear weapons and 'reinterpretation' of party policy. The Guardian of Saturday 4 April reports an article written by Healey for the US Foreign Affairs journal in which he takes up this theme.
Guardian comments: 'Mr Healey's article gives probably the clearest exposition so far of the rationale and timetable of Labour policy. It is consistent with Mr Kinnock's ambition to remove US nuclear weapons lifetime of parliament. altnough it leaves open the unstated possibility that a Labour government • persuaded away from this course if its NATO allies insisted.
'Mr Healey concludes: "In seeking the withdrawal of American nuclear weapons from Britain we shall not act unilaterally, as De Gaulle did when he ASSEMBLE:1lam conclude them well within our first ichi!
In the last few weeks we have seen the first clear signs that the Labour leadership as a whole - in contrast to a lew ligni wing rogues like Jim Callaghan — is preparing to abandon nuclear disarmament policy.
Since 1983, the clear-cut, explicit conference have been through a series of dilutions. Nuclear bases have been narrowly redefined and no mention has been made about the status of nuclear ships in entering British ports, to give just two examples. But the core of that policy unconditiona unilateral disarmament - has remained intact That is what is now under threat, and what must defended by nuclear disarmer in the party.
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