PLEDGES DISREGARDED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 74, 24 February 1938, Page 9

PLEDGES DISREGARDED.

COUNTRY’S SECURITY IMPERILLED. (British Official Wireless.) Received February 24. 10.35 a.m. RUGBY, Feb. 23. The manifesto issued after the meeting of the National Council of Labour stated:—“The executives of the Labour Party. Parliamentary Labour Party, and the Trade Union Council, called to consider the resignation of Mr Eden challenges the Government to submit to the electorate the change, which it alleges has been made in the Government foreign policy.” It states: “Mr ChamWlain and the majority of Cabinet have disregarded the pledges upon which the National Government gained the nation’s confidence at the last general election. They have brought the League Covenant into derision. They have abandoned the principles which hitherto have inspired_ the British people in their international relations. Tile Government has decided to enter upon negotiations with Italy under conditions which involve the betrayal of the friendship and confidence of the democratic, nations. The Government refuses to make a stand in the defence of international law. The Government’s policy imperils the security of the country and the Commonwealth.

“The British Labour movement reaffirms its uncompromising opposition to any agreement with either Fascist ‘ Italy or Nazi Germany on _ the basis indicated by Mr Chamberlain in liis statement to Parliament.”