PROPAGANDA IN EUROPE

Southland Times, Issue 24547, 23 September 1941, Page 5

PROPAGANDA IN EUROPE

THREE MINISTERS RESPONSIBLE (8.0.W.) RUGBY, September 21. The necessity for an “organized force and a sufficient force in the right hands to prevent a repetition of what we went through in 1914-18 and what we are going through,” was emphasized by the Minister of Economic Warfare, Dr Hugh Dalton, in a speech at the National Council of Labour demonstration. “The Germans and their associates must be deprived of the weapons and the power to quench the hope of peaceable, happy industrious lives for all their neighbours, as they have twice quenched it in our generation,” he said. “Aggressor peoples must not be deprived of work and wages or of their own hopes to live peaceable, Ixappy and industrious lives. The war aim of the British Labour movement and the whole British people is total victory over Hitlerite Germany. In Europe we have many allies in the enslaved populations of the occupied territories. “Mr Churchill has now made me, together with Mr Eden and Mr Brendan Bracken, responsible for British propaganda to the enemy and enemy-occu-pied territories. Our aim is to sustain the morale of all who today dwell unwillingly under the hideous shadow of

the swastika. To all these we declare we mean to rid their lands of the invader with all his bestial apparatus of torture, tyranny and totalitarian thieving. The Germans today are stealing from their victims food, clothing and all the necessities of life. “Our peace aims now take shape in a new order very different both from what Hitler plans and from what we knew before the war. The main lines are laid down to the Atlantic charter. On the economic side our peace aim is organized plenty for the nation and the world with access for all on equal terms to necessary raw materials. All must have social security and be assured of freedom both from want and fear. In our new order there must be no more mass unemployment, no more mass poverty. Science and planning must support improved labour standards in all lands.” ' Regarding the immediate needs of the war situation, Dr Dalton said: “Our thoughts are with our Russian Allies who are putting up so gallant a resistance to the German hordes. We have already sent them much assistance in many forms. British aircraft flown by British pilots have been in action not only in the west but also on the Russian front. We must, according to our capacity, do our utmost to strengthen tlie Russian resistance.”