USE OF FORCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1941, Page 5

USE OF FORCE

IN SAFEGUARDING FUTURE PEACE DR. DALTON ON ALLIED PLANS. GERMANS MUST BE DEPRIVED OF WEAPONS. ißritish Official Wireless.) RUGBY, -September 21. The necessity for “organised force and sufficient force in I lit 1 right hands 1 o prevent a repetition of what we went through in 1914-1918 and what we are now going through” was stressed by Dr Dalton, Minister of Economic Warfare, in a speech, at a National Council of Labour denionst rat ion.

"The Germans and their associates must be deprived of their weapons and of the power to quench hope of peaceable. happy and industrious lives in all their neighbours, as they have twice quenched, it in our generation.” he said.

“The aggressor peoples must not be deprived of work and wages or of their own hopes to live peaceable, happy, and industrious lives,” he added.

Regarding immediate needs, 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 the Russian resistance.

“The war aim of the British Labour movement and of the whole of the 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-occupied 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 that 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 in the Atlantic charter. On the economic side, our peace aim is organised plenty, nation-wide and world-wide, with access for all on equal terms to necessary raw materials. All must have social security and must be assured of freedom both from want and fear. In our new order there must be no more mass unemployment and no more mass poverty. Science and planning must support improved labour standards in all lands." ■