LABOUR PARTY IN BRITAIN

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23974, 15 June 1943, Page 2

LABOUR PARTY IN BRITAIN

annual CONFERENCE begun CHAIRMAN’S REVIEW OF POLICY * t.ondON. June Suffice. 1 a.m.) « v „ Hav nroijranimc A strenuous ftve-uay t * ordinary interest,, for P c^c^, h „ t , on . the world are wait.nß O see what tribution the party vll > n ' „ M " u,c task of world reconstruction atlor S2sss:=i= give full credit. to the National Government, in which the • co-ordinaling r.anciruil producUijn an LVKaTtntt. oSr'nc? "Let us not delude ourselves about the future. Any ending conditional surrender will not mean peace but only an interlude befor another war. Effective stops must he taken to control actual and German war industries and to• lish conditions preventing Germany from ever again loosing upon the world. It is not revenge to make sur they will never be able to repeat thei crime It is only common sense. W have a duty to the coming generation to perform and we must not fail ini tnat duty. The criminals must be Punished fnr their crimes. They must not b allowed to escape by any last-minute re The ta dissolution of- the. Communist International, he added, might 9®great political significance. It might have a salutary effect upon. Socialism’s future in the democratic coun tries. The decision was indeed very welcome. The Labour Party bad ah ways sponsored and advocated friendly relations between the Soviet Union and Britain, but it would be dishonest to suggest that the party had always been happy about the Soviet Union and its methods of promoting revolu*A<Di'scussing post-war conditions, Mr Dobbs said; "When Cabinet Ministers tell us that post-war legislation depends on the country’s post-war financial position, then they either say too little or too much. We are entitled to know what they mean, without ambiguity. We are tired of being told the elementary fact that more cannot be taken out of the national pool than is put in. „ . . “I hope, and indeed I am confident, that the Labour Party is not going to be fobbed off with pre-war excuses dressed up in post-war attire. We have got to make our own position clear to the nation and to the world/’ Dealing with the Labour Party s future, the chairman said that he could not imagine any conceivable set of circumstances that would induce the parly to tolerate a coupon general election. He could not conceive anything more likely to antagonise the Labour Party or break the heart ot the loyal, keen masses of people who were fighting for a brave, new world.