SIX PRINCIPLES

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 60, Issue 4235, 24 January 1940, Page 10

SIX PRINCIPLES

BRITISH LABOUR’S WAR AIMS iSix principles whifcb, in his view, must form the basis of any honourable peace, were enumerated by Mr C. R. Attlee, Leader of the Opposition, at a private conference of Labour M.P.’s and candidates. The six basic principles of a lasting peace as put forward by Mr Attlee were the following:— “1. All ideas of revenge and punishment must be excluded, and there should b(e no dictated peace. “2. The right of all nations, of whatever colour or creed, to live and to develop their own characteristic civilisation munt be recognised. “3. War must be outlawed and the rule of law accepted. “4. An international body, with authority over the sovereign rights of the individual State, to protect the rights of minorities. “5. An international authority with political and economic powers over individual States—‘Europe must federate or perish.’ “6. Abandonment of imperialism possibly with an extension of the mandate system.”