CONDITIONS OF PEACE.
“While it may not be possible to state war aims in explicit terms of international boundaries, it should be possible to set them out at once in general form,” writes Mr George Gibson. chairman of the Trades Union Congress in “Reynolds News.” “Such, a statement should, however, be sufficiently specific to convince ('very doubting (dement on the Continent that Britain seeks not domination, but co-oper-ntiop; not a military victory only, but a permanent peace; hot racial aggrandisement, but a settlement in which all nations can 1 take their just share. In fact, what we seek is the right of selfdetermination for all peoples. On that basis we seek to build international economic relations, leading to peaceful adjustment of international disputes, whether economic, military or racial. Thus we shall march toward our common goal—the happier, free and fuller life for which generations have striven.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 146, 2 April 1941, Page 4
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