BRITISH LABOUR

Waikato Times, Volume 129, Issue 21532, 22 September 1941, Page 5

BRITISH LABOUR

STATEMENT BY MINISTER PLANS FOR NEW ORDER DESTRUCTION OF NAZISM (Official Wireless) (Received Sept. 22, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 21 The necessity of an “organised force and sufficient force in the right hands to prevent a repetition of what we went through in 1914-1918, and what we are going through,” was stressed by Dr H. Dalton, Minister of Economic Welfare, in a speech at a National Council of Labour demonstration. ‘T’he Germans and their associates must be deprived of the weapons and power to quench the hope of peaceable, happy, industrious lives in all their neighbours, as they have twice quenched it in our generation. Tne aggressor peoples must not be deprived of work and wages or of their own hopes to live peaceable, happy industrious lives,” Dr. Dalton 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 by the British Labour movement and 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. Hideous Shadow of Swastika “Mr Churchill has now made me, together with Mr Anthony 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 be assured of freedom both from want and fear. In our new order there must be no more mass unemployment, no more mass poverty. Science and planning must support improved labour standards in all lands.” BRITISH BLOCKADE WILL DEFEAT AXIS (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) NEW YORK, Sept. 19 A German with American business connections who left Germany in August in order to reside permanently in the United States has given, frankly, his impressions of the present situation in answer to the following questions:— “What is the morale of the German people?” “That is an extremely difficult question to answer. Nazi Party officials, and those who profit by the regime, seem condent of victory. The public does not express itself very often on the question of defeat. A small number, but a growing group, of people fear that Germany’s defeat will be more decisive and the aftereffects more far-reaching than in the last war.”

“Have the Germans any fear of losing the war by a military defeat within, say, the next two years?” “Definitely, no. The Germans, including myself, do not see how a sufficiently large expeditionary force can ever be landed by Britain and the United States on the Continent to defeat the German Army.” “Then do you think Germany can ever be defeated?”

“Yes, certainly. She will be defeated, as in the last war, by the British blockade, which is producing steady pressure, and the requisite undermining of German strength. There is a general feeling that after Christmas there will be an extreme food shortage. Nor do the Germans feel that further conquests will augment supplies to the point where Germany can hold the Continent or continents against world opposition. The blockade is Britain’s major weapon, which will give ultimate complete victory.” The speaker said the German invasion of Russia was a bigger sensation to the people than the outbreak of the war in 1939. The German people neither comprehended the aim of the Nazis in Russia nor the exact character of the military plans against her. They were asking what, exactly was the purpose of the war on Russia.