HUMANITY SHAMED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 91, 17 April 1940, Page 6

HUMANITY SHAMED.

RUSSIAN BARBARITY. WHAT BRITISH LABOUR LEADER SAW. Sir Walter Citrine, jreneral secretary of the T.U.C., just home from Finland, made a slashing attack on Russia in 14 speech at Durham on March 1(5. "If you had seen, as I saw, hospital* bombed, you would know whv I si>eak with Heat," he said. Hie bombinjr of the Russian airmen was completely indiscriminate. Xinetonths of the hits were registered oil workers' homes.

1 lie Russians wore attempting (o demoralise the eivilian populat ion? Ik-. cause tliey had been unexpected!v held lip liy tlie illitiati\ t > and bin vary of a pallaut little people. "I .-aw whole -treels of workers' hou-es lmriicd down. ' Kussia s attack on Finland was disgraceful to humanity, let alone to a >ocallcd Sociali-t State. The terms of t lie Ru.-so-Kinnisl, peace were dictated because democracy id »°t I've up to democratic principles."' Sir Walter went on to say that six month.- practical experience 'in dealing with war problems had fullv justified the unions war policy. Without abandoning , h eir independence. the unions had entered into continuous consultation with Ministers and .overnment Departments on questions affect injr the worker.*. 1 his support was not to the government but the nation. and their ifforts had been directed wholly to the development of the nation's Source* tor successful prosecution of the war.