THE WAR DANGER.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 November 1923, Page 2

THE WAR DANGER.

EXPRESSED OPINIONS. BRIGHT HOPES DARKENED. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Nov. 11. Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, speaking at Dewsbury, declared that every industrial country, protected or unprotected, required its wage earners to fight through the trade unions to maintain themselves against the encroachments of capital. Until the British electors faced the problem of international relationship we should have no peace, prosperity or honor. If they did not see to it that peace were maintained in Europe, our sons would be called upon to . fight in another war. He intended to keep the peace of Europe at the forefront of the Labor programme. The Archbishop of Canterbury, preaching at St. Paul’s Cathedral, said that when we tried to remember what we aimed at, fought, wrought, and cared for in the Great War, which he believed ended in 1918, we found quiet recollectiveness strangely difficult. There w r as a danger of sheer pessimism. As we looked around we stood aghast at the European confusion and were bewildered by the malignant spectre of unemployment darkening the home sky. Darkness had fallen for a time on many bright hopes conceived in war time, but even that darkness held a gleam of good. It pressed home upon the world the accursedness of war. He appealed to every one to question himself as to what he was doing in the ordinary intercourse of life to help the cause of peace and forgiveness.