BRITISH LABOUR'S AIMS
IDENTICAL WITH THE RUSSIAN
A MESSAGE TO PETROGRAD,
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.)
(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)
LONDON, 15th January. ,
The Trade Union Congress and the Labour party have sent a message to the Russian people stating that by breaking off the peace negotiations Russia will risk the suppression of her newly-won freedom. In this crisis the ' British people must speak, therefore, and. proclaim identical aims with Russia. "We will accept no annexations for the British Empire. We respect the sovereign independence of. the Turkish people- in Constantinople, Thrace, and Anatolia, but the British Government has justifiably pledged itself to the Arabs and the Jews. We accept the renunciation of annexation for tropical Africa, and the principle, of eelf-determination for India and the dependencies, though the record of the British Government gives occasion for little reproach, and the application of the principle of self-determi-nation will, be difficult. Our purpose eventually is to l'aise them to the status of the Dominions."
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 15, 17 January 1918, Page 7
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161BRITISH LABOUR'S AIMS Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 15, 17 January 1918, Page 7
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