"A LABOUR VIEW"

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 5, 6 July 1923, Page 4

"A LABOUR VIEW"

MR. HOLLAND ON INTERN A TIONAL, QUESTIONS.

■ Mr. 11. E. Holland (Bulle,-) said evenviled W I ClV g6 o! iltlitude revealed by the resolution. It meallt tl t ZeaS C°nV, lm f itment -°»ld bind New Zealand. llmtwas a mn from tli« Labour Party's standpoint. Five ye rs ago such a .-esolution would never tore been, brought before the House. Ho an proved of the resolution as 1 far :as it went, but it should have an 'addition askmg the^ House to approve of the Prime Mimstdvgoing to the Conference. All ware now had their origin in econ omic fhffm-ericcs, nml -the trouble v ß r that an Imperial -Conference might a -- «?tua.t £ thpss diHgrenceß .Mr. Uovd.

George had sought to create a war atmosphere out of the Near East trouble, purely for party purposes. The Prime Minister: i. That is not correct." Mr. Holland said that secrecy was the curse of the world's diplomacy, and he outlined the international situation leading up to the Great War. The speaker doalfc with the cosmopolitan character of capitalism, illustrating his arguments with instances where munitions made by British firms for foreign Powers had been used against British troops in the war. J-Jiese capitalistic influences were what were operating in the Near East today. The Sevres Treaty, like the Versailles Treaty, was a dictated peace. It was not a treaty at all, and had been condemned by General Townshend, who probably kne-v more about tho Near East than any man who had yet spoken. The iroaty operated in the same way, say. as a mandate over New Zealand would do if given to Japan, and aroused fierce racial feeling Mr. Holland urged that the Prime Minister should press for a revision o£ the Treaty of Versaillee, which was responsible for the present economic condition of the, world. At 11.15 the debate was adjourned on the motion of Mr. S. G. Smith (Tara- ; naki), until 2.30 this afternoon.