LABOUR’S WAR AIM.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 104, 12 February 1940, Page 5

LABOUR’S WAR AIM.

“FREE A'ND TIDY EUROPE.”

NO COMPROMISE WITH NAZIS.

LONDON, February 10.

After, declaring that-, in his opinion, the British Labour Party’s manifesto on war and peace would live in history as an objective statement of the causes of the war, the principles involved in it, and the purpose which should animate the peace, Mr Herbert Morrison, secretary of the London Labour Party, speaking at Sheffield, said: “With the people of France, 'we entered the war to smash the Nazi regime, which had become a nuisance to Europe generally, as well as a curse to Germany. We cannot compromise with that regime : we cannot make peace with it.

“Let it be understood that any mere reshuffling of Nazi personalities as for example the substitution of Herr Goering for Herr Hitler, will make no difference. Nazi rule and Nazi blackmail must go. Lot the German people recognise that fact. Lot them recognise also that as far as they are parties to continuing to allow the Nazis in power, they will be sharing the responsibility, with the Nazis, for the continuance of the war.” With no loss emphasis, however, .1 wish to add this—that, if the German people destroy the Nazi Government and substitute an enlightened democratic -regime, anxious to co-operate with other nations in the building of a free -and tidy Europe, then the purpose of the war will have been served, and there will be no need for its continuance. Just as wo must continue this struggle for the destruction of a tyrannical and abominable regime, until that end is attained, so we must be ready and indeed anxious for peace with the Gorman nation, when that nation has achieved the prerequisites of a fundamental change in German policy, and has withdrawn its forces from territories which Germany has no right to occupy.

Finally, British Labour appeals for an order in which justice and economic fair play will obtain, from which war will have boon banished, and which will provide the necessary means for the preservation of peace between nations.