OF PARTICULAR INTEREST

Wairarapa Daily Times, 7 September 1937, Page 6

OF PARTICULAR INTEREST

LABOUR DECLARATION. TAVOFOLD PEACE POLICY. RUGBY r , Sunday. International policy and defence are discussed in a declaration issued by the National Council of Labour, which represents the general council of the Trades Union Congress, the Labour Party, and tlie Parliamentary Labour Party. The declaration is of particular interest in view of the opening, on Alonday of the Trades Union Congress and tlie annual meeting of the Labour Party next month. The .declaration outlines a twofold policy for peace. On the one hand it proposes that Powers which entertain grievances should be invited to state their ease and should be offered, through the League of Nations, as all nations should be offered, a ‘ ‘ new system of political security and of .economic opportunity which will banish from international relations both the fear of war and legitimate economic grievances.” This new system, it adds, must, however, form part of a general settlement which will relax the lire sent international tension and hold out prospects of an enduring peace.

The other part of the policy requires that through the League aggressors should be confronted with an emphatic superiority of armed force. The declaration insists that a British Government carrying out Labour's policy must be strongly equipped to defend this country to play its full part in collective security and to resist any intimidation by Fascist Powers and that such a Government, until the change in the international situation caused by its advent had had its effect, would be unable to reverse the present programme of re-armament. —(British Official Wireless).