SIX PRINCIPLES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20107, 29 November 1939, Page 14

SIX PRINCIPLES

NEW EUROPEAN ORDER PLANNING FOR CHANGES AFTERMATH OF THE WAR LABOUR M.P.’S OPINION (Elec. Tel. Copyright—Onitml Prose Assn.) (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 9 n.m. RUGBY. Nov. 27. In the course of his broadcast speech tli is evening. Mr. Herbert Morrison. Leader of the London County Council and Labour M.P. for Hackney South, recalling that he had spent his life in struggling for security at work and at home for the mass of the people, stated that he realised full well that, as a result of the war. much constructive social work must temporarily cease. But. in spite of this he, together with 99 per cent of his fellow countrymen, knew that there could be no peace in Europe until a peace could be made with a “Germany ready to play the game and co-operate.” Britain would be chasing a will-o-the-wisp if the object of the war were only to end the Nazi threat and to restore a pro-Nazi Europe, said Mr. Morrison.

Although disagreeing fundamentally economica 11 v and politically with the Prime Minister. Mr. Neville Chamberlain. he was at one with Mr. Chamberlain that the war would result in i deep changes in every trend ot thought and action. He urged that everyone should make themselves ready and plan for the kind of change that would come, and he suggested some principles which he thought should govern the new order. Objections Urged “Our aims," he said, “should be these:--"(1) While we must bo ready to surrender a measure of national sovereignty, we must maintain the cunurai Ircedom ot nations and a proper measure of independence in tneir political life. "(2) We must cling to the ideal of government, whatever its actual form, as something which exists to serve the people and not to dominate them, and we must remember that this is no mere internal question. The Governments that dominate at home are oiten peace-breakers abroad. “CD The nations must come together and Jlaekle international economic problems, including the problem of colonial possessions, on international lines, even il this means the limitation of national sovereignty. ■‘('l) We must organise the industry, trade and commerce of the world with the idea not of bolstering up special privileges of any class o> group, but of achieving a higher standard of life for all. “(51 We must insist upon achieving international control of arms manufacture and armed forces, once again giving up some of the old ideas ol national sovereignty in order to bring that about. ••((i) The nations—victors and vanquished and neutrals alikemust agree that none will seek to be judge In his own cognisance and that each will submit grievances and quarrels to impartial judgment and will abide by the outcome.”

Mr. Morrison said he did not think this was the proper time to enter into a more detailed oeace programme. The basic motive of Britain's entry into the war was because of the conflict between profound respect for the individuality of the common man, his freedom of mind and conscience, and a pagan materialism which subordinated man to the soulless purposes of machine-made States.