ANGLO-FRENCH PACT
OPPOSED BY BRITISH LABOUR DANCER TO PEACE OF MILITARY ALLIANCES. By telegraph—press association. —OOPYBIGHT. (Rec. March 2, 11.30 p.m.) London, March 1A joint meeting of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress and the Labour Party passed a resolution expressing condemnation by the British Labour movement of any pact with France involving naval and military co-operation. The resolution called upon the Government to submit the pact to Parliament before it becomes a treaty. The resolution adds:- “Only an international understanding having for its aim disarmament by land, sea, and air, and a guarantee of peace by the peoples can preserve the peoples from the menace of a new war. This understanding will jlie realised only through international arbitration and a true league of nations, including all peoples, and will be endangered by special military alliances between certain States fer tile purpose of creating a balance of power.” —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 135, 3 March 1922, Page 5
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