POST-WAR TASK
END TO UNEMPLOYMENT
CONSTRUCTIVE METHODS
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received December 21, 1 p.m.)
RUGBY, December 20,
Speaking of pre-war Europe, Mr. Bevin said that if at any moment there had been a genuine desire on Germany's part to put aside the philosophy of domination and accept the principle of co-operation Britain would have responded. He could speak for the heart of the British people, he added, when he said there was no antagonism to a just revision of the Versailles Treaty and a co-operative attempt to secure a better standard of living and human association.
The six million unemployed in Germany before Hitler came to power had been absorbed by making weapons of destruction, and he concluded: "The great task which lies before us when the war is finished is to weed out the poverty and misery of unemployment by constructive methods and not by the professional means of destruction now in use."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 150, 21 December 1940, Page 11
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