DEMOCRACY IN FOREIGN POLICY

Maoriland Worker, Volume 13, Issue 36, 5 September 1923, Page 14

DEMOCRACY IN FOREIGN POLICY

British Labour Appeals to NX Parliament

In a somewhat lengthy document (which reached us too late for publication in this issue of The Maoriland Worker), signed by 119 members of the Labour Party in the House of Commons, and* addressed to every member of the New Zealand Houses of Parliament, a request is made for the passage of the following resolution, tbe request being supported by a number of irrefutable arguments:-^ ' f That, in tbe opinion of this House, no act of__war against a foreign State shall be committed, directly or indirectly, without the consent of Parliament; international treaty whatever shall be ratified until it has been submitted to and approved by Parliament; no diplomatic arrangement or verbal or written understanding with a foreign State, involving, even indirectly, military obligations, shall .be finally concluded without the consent of Parliament, and no preparations for co-operation in war between the naval or military staffs and the naval or military staffs of a foreign State shall be lawful without Parliamentary sanction; and this resolution shall be communicated to all States with which we are in diplomatic relations and to the League of Nations." Tbe communication will appear in The Worker next week.