“So far from organised Labour desiring war, it fervently prays for the keeping of peace. It does not believe that sanctions necessarily involve war. On the contrary, it holds that the exercise of moral and material pressure on an aggressor is the one way to restrain the law breaker without recourse to arms. Labour cannot now flinch. It must not shrink from the logic of its considered policy. If the League fails in this crisis in its history, it destroys itself and the hopes of the nations. Lawlessness will walk across the world. Under its cover, naked imperialism and militarism will hold sway. Dictatorships will flourish. We cannot face such a situation with equanimity, and I earnestly appeal to the movement for unity and courage at this testing time in its history.”—Mr W. A. Robinson, chairman of the Labour Party Conference.
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Waipa Post, Volume 52, Issue 3705, 10 January 1936, Page 4
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