LABOUR POLICY AND DEFENCE
“LIMIT OF RETtfeEAT HAS BEEN REACHED” LONDON, September 10. Sir Walter Citrine, general secretary, moving at the Trades Union Congress, the adoption of the foreign policy statement, said that, with the new technique of waging war without declaration against civilians, the safest place might be in the trenches. If the Fascist used armed might there must be some deterrent. “A cry may come from the general public that the limit of retreat has been reached, and a call on the Government to act on that cry is actually being raised now,” he said. How could they escape the conclusion that some measure of rearmament was indispensible if the country was to face its obligations? Labour would not be indifferent to the defence of her own shores. (Cheers.) The policy was adopted by a card vote of 3,544,000 to 224,000.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22196, 13 September 1937, Page 5
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