POST-WAR WORLD

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 40, 17 February 1943, Page 4

POST-WAR WORLD

INTERNATIONAL POLICE FORCE ADVOCATED

RUGBY, February 15. The Joint Under-Secretary of Air,. Captain Harold Balfour, giving hisviews on the Conservative Party's post-war policy in a speech at Oxford today, said that the British Commonwealth was essential to the world and could be the greatest force for good in the future. He expressed his belief in. a progressive reduction of the world's armies. "As part of an international system, we should be ready to pledge a proportion of our forces, with .contingents from other subscribing nations, as an international police force to be called out and operated under the direction of a central authority," he said. Speaking of the home front, Captain Balfour said that the State should laydown boundaries within which industry would be allowed to function and. within which enterprise,-.; adventure, and initiative should be encouraged.! We should place the harvest of our"; wealth on a sound and orderly basis* by refusing to accept large unemploy-* ment as a part of our system, and fijq a national minimum wage standard as** the first charge on industry, ranking before capital, the employees to haves regulated hours of employment withj paid holidays and adequate standards) of housing and family allowances. , It is disclosed today that the Board? |of Trade is sending a questionnaire toj all industries and trade associations asking what obstacles they see.in thei way to full activity and employment after the war. The President of tha Board of Trade, Dr. Dalton, said thatj discussions are being made by the in« dustries and trade unions concernedj He hoped within a reasonable time toi get a complete picture of the position; and to lay firmly-placed plans to makei as quick a switchover to peace as pos^ sible.—B.O.W.