WORLD COMMONWEALTH.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 141, 16 May 1936, Page 9

WORLD COMMONWEALTH.

FOR DURABLE PEACE

COUNCIL OF LABOUR’S MANIFESTO.

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 national armed forces to as low a level as possible, and support for the 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. 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 by 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 ccntiol raw materials and afford all nations equality in the world’s undeveloped regions.