News Years messages looking ahead to 1957

News Years messages looking ahead to 1957; ENGLAND: London: INT Oliver Poole (Chairman, Conservative Party) interview SOF - 1957 may be a difficult year for everyone, but will be a challenging one ... demands a new step into a new age / Will present Government and Tory party with considerable difficulties, also opportunities / There are very complex problems ahead, but these problems in themselves provide tremendous opportunity, our policies must be realigned to meet changed conditions at home and abroad, must so contrive affairs that the prosperity of the people is increased at home and their power expanded abroad, that is the task ahead ... Confident that this challenge will be met, pioneering spirit of the people under their leadership will triumph in 1957 ... / Morgan Phillips (Secretary, Labour Party) interview SOF - I don't know [if it will be an election year], but certainly hope so ... It is vital for the nation as a whole that we should do everything we can to preserve the peace of the world, I should like to see as a contribution to that ending of ... tests, the beginning of the end of national service, consideration of the development and research in this country so industry can play full part, would like housing policy, scrapping or amendment of the rent bill, education policy that is going to play a part in making the country really great, would like to see sports facilities provided ... so we can really lift the gold standard next time Olympics are being held / With regard to fears, I fears can be summarised in this, that we may drift from crisis to crisis, reap harvest of 1956 because the government has no clue as to how to tackle the problems that lie ahead ... young people will become disillusioned about democratic politics, and with aid of TV might quite easily find jazz king ... more important than the administrator of the bread and butter problems of this country / Herbert Harris (Liberal Party) interview SOF - Liberals step into ...