Timely Topics
“The Labour Movement (says Dr. Hugh Dalton, the British Labour leader) entered this war tor two competing reasons: for BRITISH LABOUR our own selfAND WAR. preservation and for the sake of human liberty and brotherhood.
“The victory of Hitler over us would mean, first and foremost, the suppression of all the Labour Movement stands for—trade unions, co-operative societies, the right of free speech, of voluntary political organisation, of democratic election. All these institutions have been brutally destroyed in Germany, in Austria, in Czechoslovakia, and now in Poland.
“There are a few in Britain who cry ‘Stop the war,’ ‘Stop it now without conditions.’ In this country they are free to speak their minds. In Germany they would be shot like dogs, or horribly tortured and misused in Hitler’s concentration camps. If we were to stop the war now, on Hitler’s terms, when would it start again? As soon as it suited his purpose to break his word once more. No one believes peaceful deeds, not worthless words from him now.”
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Northern Advocate, 16 December 1939, Page 8
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172Timely Topics Northern Advocate, 16 December 1939, Page 8
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