MUST SMASH NAZI REGIME

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 118, 12 February 1940, Page 9

MUST SMASH NAZI REGIME

Pre-condition Of Peace

COMMENT ON BRITISH LABOUR POLICY

(British Oflicial Wireless.) (Received February 11, 7.5 p.m.) RUGBY, February 10. After declaring that in his opinion the Labour Party’s manifesto on war and peace, which was published at the end of last week, 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, leading Labour M.P., 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.”

“’And let it be understood that any mere reshuffling of Nazi personalities, as, for example, the substitution of Goering for Hitler, will make no difference. “The Nazi rule and the blackmail must go. Let the Germanpeople recognize that fact. Let them recognize also that, insofar as they are parties to continuing the Nazis in power, they will be sharing the responsibility with the Nazis for the continuance of the war.

“With no less emphasis, however, I 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 fitly Europe, then the purpose of the war will have been served, and there will be no need for its continuance. Anxious For Such a Peace. "Just as we must continue this struggle for the destruction of the tyrannical and abominable regime, until that end is attained so we must be ready and, indeed, anxious for a peace with the German nation when that nation lias achieved the pre-requisites of a fundamental change in German policy and has withdrawn its forces from territories which Germany has no right to occupy.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 been banished, and which will provide the necessary means for the preservation of peace between nations.”