TOPICS OF THE DAY

Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21096, 24 April 1940, Page 6

TOPICS OF THE DAY

War Aims of British Labour It is unlikely a general election will be held in Britain during the war, but it is almost certain that one would be held before the meeting of a Peace Conference. A general election followed the Armistice of 1918 and preceded the Peace Conference at Versailles, Replacement of the present British Government by a Labour Government may be unlikely, but it is at least a possibility. Thus it is a matter of more than academic interest to ask what would happen to the peace if the making of it were entrusted to leaders of th« Labour Party, says the Chrisian Science Monitor. To the Allies and friends of Great Britain it is reassuring to know that the broad policy of the Labour Party on the question of resettlement is in essentials the same as that of the present Government. In its manifesto on “The War and the Peace,” there is not a word which contradicts the peace declarations of Mr Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister, and Lord Halifax, Foreign Secretary. It even gees further than Mr Chamberlain when it says that an association of States should be formed around the nucleus provided by war-time co-operation of Britain and France, that it should have a collective authority transcending the sovereign rights of separate States, and must control military and economic power to enforce peaceful behaviour as between its members and secure armament reduction.