LABOUR'S FOREIGN POLICY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18710, 16 May 1924, Page 9

LABOUR'S FOREIGN POLICY.

MR. MacDONALD EXPOUNDS. Renter. LONDON, May 14. Defining the British Government's foreign policy at the National Conference of Labour Women in the Albert Hall, the Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald. stated that he was a. convinced and unbending Nationalist. ■ He respected the national traditions and characteristics. It would be a very bad day for the world if the diversities of humanity created by so many variations of race, creed, and clime were sandpapered into one feature. It ■was not his ideal, however, to run nationalism so hard that it became a pest to anyone' trying to make peace. Nationalism was not aggression, but self-respect. Therefore the Labour Government's foreign policy was to bring about a great peace union. He appealed to all European nations, no less than the Great Powers, to come in and make possible the advancement of a policy of disarmament.

Referring to the reparation experts' plan, Mr. Mac Donald admitted there were some things in it of which he was a little bit suspicious. However, he believed that the adoption, of. the plan as a hole' would give Europe a new chance of finding its feet. He urged all the Powers concerned to take up the same attitude and trust to the sense of .justice of the world to see right done in the end..