LEAGUE POLICY
GOVERNMENT'S SUPPORT
TOO LONG DELAYED
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received November 6, 11.30 a.m.)
RUGBY, November 5.
A broadcast election address was delivered last night by Mr.' Arthur Greenwood (Labour), who declared that the Government's full support of the League of Nations policy and of the collective peace system was too long delayed, and he denied that Britain's armed forces were inadequate for the purposes of national defence or insufficient to enable the country to take its part in developing a policy of collective security through the League. The Labour Party, he said, was pledged to maintain armed defence at the highest point of efficiency consistent with the country's needs and with its responsibilities with other League Powers under the Covenant.
Referring to the fall in the number of unemployed, he. said that the figures showed that over the whole post-war period industries had not expandedfast enough to absorb the normal increase of population.
Regarding the suggestion that a financial crisis would be precipitated if Labour were returned to power, he said: "We seek no crisis, and if one should arise it will be due to interests which refuse to accept the fully expressed will of the people." '
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 111, 6 November 1935, Page 9
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