A POLICY OF PEACE

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2134, 13 February 1929, Page 6

A POLICY OF PEACE

LABOUR PARTY’S IDEAL

MB MACDONALD'S VIEWS

(Aum. and N.Z Cable! Loudon, Feb. l’J

Mr llainsay MacDonald, in , am article m the Morning. Post, (Minos tl’ foreign polny ol the La boil)' Party as one of peace. “Co-opera - t m not more j avoi Is «va. l ut will put thoughts of and preparations for war out of tine mind «! the nations, Fear amd suspicion in the hearts of the people keep them armed, not against any enemy in sip/lit, hut the shadow of a. possible einemv. The nations are afraid t 0 walk in the unfainfliar ways of peace. The' dictum that ought to orientate British foreign policy is ’ that established peace is the Lost security, and till is antiq nates all I military policies, but the Foreign Secretary must remember that no country can move far beyond others.’ The Foreign Secretary cannot isolate his country, but lie can keep the jvorld moving rapidly. The time l is overdue lor evacuating the Rhineland, settling all reparations, and accepting Russia as a fact. British '.relations, with the United States should be- put on .a satisfactory footing, not by unoffiemil talks, but officially and formally,”