QUESTION OF PEACE AIMS

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 120, 14 February 1941, Page 7

QUESTION OF PEACE AIMS

Statement By British Labour Leader (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February 12. Replying to a motion on adjourn,men.. by Mr.' Geoffrey Mander (Labours dealing with peace aims, Mr. Attlee. Leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party, said in the House of Common.-: ••When you get down to peace aims, as I have done, you will find you have ■* think a good deal. I don’t think it is a thing that can be done off the reel in a moment. Remember, too. it is one tiling for private individuals to pur down their peace aims, and another thing for a Government to do so.' The Government, he said, had staled that a declaration of peace aims would be made at the right time. Such a declaration was a weapon of war. and not quite the same thing as a picture of the post-war world. “Do not imagine that there is not a very wide and growing agreement in this country as to the things for which wo stand," he continued. ‘1 think I here is a growing understanding that we are fighting for a new world, not only for ourselves, but. for Europe and the' civilized world. 1 think there is a crowing realization of a close linking between our political aims and our economic aims." He regarded this, he said, as one of the most encouraging reasons for an expression of national unity, gradually spreading toward peace alms, because any statement on this subject must be one making for unity in Britain, the Dominions, and the United States of America, ami with all civilized people who were lu the present struggle.