NO COMPROMISE

Evening Star, Issue 23498, 12 February 1940, Page 7

NO COMPROMISE

NAZIDOM MUST BE SMASHED RESPONSIBILITIES OF GERMAN PEOPLE (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February 10. After declaring that in his opinion the Labour Party’s manifesto on war and peace would live in history as an objective statement of the causes of war, the principles involved in it and the purpose which should animate the peace, Mr Herbert Morrison, M.P. (Labour), speaking at Sheffield, said: “ With the people of France we entered the war to smash the Nasi regime which had become a nuisance to Europe generally, as well as a curse to Germany. We cannot compromise with that regime. We cannot make peace with it. And let it be understood that any mere reshuffling of Nazi personalities, as, for example, the substitution of Goering for Hitler, will make no difference. Nazi rule and Nazi blackmail must go. Let the German people recognise that fact. Let them recognise also that, in so far as they are parties to maintaining the Nazis in power, they will be sharing the responsibility with the Nazis for the continuance of the war. “ With no less emphasis, however, I wish to add this, that if the German people destroy the Nazi Government and substitute an enlightened democratic regime, anxious to ‘co-operate with other nations in the building of a free and tidy Europe, then the purpose of the war will have been served and there will be no need for its continuance. Just as we must continue this struggle for the destruction of » tyrannical and abominable regime until that end is attained, so we must be ready, and indeed anxious, for peacj with the German nation when that nation has achieved the prerequisites of a fundamental change in German policy and has withdrawn its forces from the territories whioh Germany has no right to occupy. “ Finally, British Labour appeals for an order in which justice and economic fair play will obtain, from which war will have been banished, and which will provide the necessary means for the preservation of peace between the nations.”

FANTASTIC FIGURES

POLISH “ATROCITY" STORIES “MASS MURDER" OF GERMANS BERLIN, February.il. (Received February 12, at 11 a.m.) A new edition of the Foreign Office publication, ‘ Polish Atrocities Against Germans in Poland,’ alleges that the Poles murdered 58,000 of. the German minority during September. The Germans first officially claimed that 5,487 had been murdered, but amended the figure later to 12,000. The new edition alleges that even the new figure of 58.000 is not final, because “ hundreds of mass graves have been discovered which cannot be opened until the spring on account of the weather.” MACHINERY AND PLANES INCREASED RUSSIAN PURCHASES FROM AMERICA NEW YORK, February 10. The Washington correspondent of the ‘ New York Times ’ says that the rising trend of the Russian imports from' the United States since the Finnish war began is revealed in an analysis of the trade figures for December. They- are valued at 15,000,000 dollars—more than a quarter of the total for 1939, in which the adverse Russian trade balance was 43,000,000 dollars. The accelerated purchase of 1940 is mainly of machinery and manufactured aeroplanes. CANADIAN EX-SERVICEMEN PARADE AT ALDERSHOT (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February 11. (Received February 12, at 11 a.m.) Over 200 Canadian ex-eervicemen, all wearing war medals, paraded at Aidershot with the serving Canadians who are there under training' exservicemen, who came from all parts of the British Isles, included blinded and severely crippled men. After attending church the whole parade marched past Major-general M'Naughton, who took the salute.

NO COLOUR BAR NEGRO IN TRAINING FOR BRITISH OFFICER LONDON, February 11. (Received February 12, at 1 p.m.) Believed to be an unprecedented instance of a negro training for officership in the British Army is supplied by Arundel M. Moody (22), the son of Dr Harold A Moody, president of the League of Coloured Peoples. The father states that several African students desired to enter the Army, as the result of which he took the matter up with Mr Chamberlain and Mr Malcolm MacDonald, whereafter Arundel was commissioned to the officers’ training corps, Mr MacDonald announcing that people not of pure European descent might be commissioned as an emergency measure. The father added that Mr MacDonald said it would bo the Government’s policy to abolish the

colour bar in Britain and overseas. H« promised to consider instructing colonial Governors to give preference to their nationals in local appointment* over Europeans if nationals were well qualified. ARMY SOCCER MATCH FRANCE AND BRITAIN DRAW PARIS, February 11. (Received February 12, at 1.5 p.m.L Thirty-five thousand, half of whom were British soldiers and airmen, were surprised to see the French Army team draw in a Soccer match with the powerful British Army side, 1-all.