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liberal thought around which the party needed to coalesce. Trevor Wilson claims there was a choice for radicals and traditionalists in the party. They could withdraw from politics, they could defect to other parties or they could "allow distrust of Lloyd George to be outweighed by sympathy for the new thought and daring programme he was offering". In 1938 Dodds chaired the party's
Ownership for All Committee. Its resulting report reiterated the traditional Liberal position on the role of property ownership as the "bedrock of liberty". The report called for restoration of free trade, reforms of the rating system, and came out against state intervention in the economy except in the most extreme of circumstances. More positively it also promoted co-ownership in industry – a policy with which Dodds became increasingly associated. The report was endorsed by the 1938
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