A GRIM REALITY

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 115, 16 May 1936, Page 9

A GRIM REALITY

DANGER OF WAR

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR POLICY

COLLECTIVE SECURITY

United Press Association—By Electric Tele- ; graph—Copyright. ' LONDON, May 14. Asserting that the danger of war is a grim reality, the International Council of Labour has issued a new policy statement advocating collective security, the creation of an international- force, the reduction of natipnal armed forces to as low a level as possible, and support for peaceful settlement of foreign disputes. It refuses to support any Government involved in war through its own aggression, and bases Labour's foreign policy, upon the League, which is still the only organisation capable of preserving peace, isolation is impossible for Britain because her Dominions are world-wide and she herself is too near to Europe. WORLD CONFERENCE URGED. A world commonwealth should be established to secure a durable peace. No monopoly should deny the earth's fruits to any. other State. The Abyssinian campaign showed what Europe might expect failing a realisation of the League system. Italy/must be prevented from reaping the'fruits of brutal violence. An effort must be made to discover a basis of negotiation with Herr Hitler, with Germany being invited to participate in a European disarmament agreement on an equal footing. Dangerous exploitation of- colonies for imperialist profit must be eradicated and the Government should urge the League to summon a world economic conference' to control raw materials and afford all nations equality in the world's undeveloped regions. !:■■■.■■