proposed certain revolutionary recommendations to the Labor Party's Trade and Economic Committee, which had met earlier in the week. These recommendations, later forwarded to Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade, were for the partial nationalization of the film industry in Britain. The three main clauses proposed that the government should acquire by negotiation some 500 theaters, mostly from the big circuits,' should set up a government-owned and -controlled renting organization to handle independently produced British films, and should acquire studio space to encourage and facilitate the production of such films.