SOCIALIST ATTITUDE TO CRISIS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21181, 31 October 1938, Page 9

SOCIALIST ATTITUDE TO CRISIS

Plans for National Defence Demand for Return of Colonies . Value of Friendship With France United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, October 28. The Socialist Party has issued a manifesto demanding an effort to organise man-power for armed forces, passive defence of industry, the creation of defence and supply Ministries, the treating of air-raid precautions as of equal importance to other defences, the preventing of profiteering and the applying of international trusteeship to colonies not yet ripe for self-government. The Colonies’ Issue On the subject of the Colonies the manifesto urges that the question must not be solved by the redistributing of territories among competing powers, but by applying, to all colonies, not ripe for self government, the principle of international trusteeship in the interests of colonial peoples, and of all the world. Access to raw materials, the manifesto says can be settled by readiness to allow all nations, which are willing to renounce aggression and live at peace, to share the world's abundance. Support for League The rebuilding of the League of Nations and of real collective security against aggression is demanded in the manifesto to ensure a return to the system of settling international disputes by impartial arbitration, and to check the arms race which is now leading the nations to ruin.

ATTITUDE IN FRANCE PRAISE AND CRITICISM United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received October 30, 6.30 p.m.) PARIS, October 29. The Radical Socialist Congress passed a resolution congratulating M. Daladier and M. Bonnet and declaring that the Franco-British Entente must have the unshakeable basis of foreign policy and regretting that the League of Nations is unable to ensure security, but hoping the Munich agreement would lead to wider international negotiations and demanding the complete withdrawal of volunteers from Spain. The Congress also advocated an international economic conference and appealed to the French nation for efforts for the country’s safety. The press assails M. Daladier's speech in which he advocated Franco-German co-operation.