LABOUR’S PEACE AIMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24226, 19 February 1940, Page 7

LABOUR’S PEACE AIMS

THE FIRST ESSENTIAL OVERTHROW OF NAZIS (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, Feb. 17. (Received Feb. 18, at 6 p.m.) Speaking on Labour’s peace aims, Dr Hugh Dalton, M.P., said .that while Labour could not make peace until the Nazi regime was overthrown, peace talks could begin at once with any German Government which restored the, freedom of the Poles and Czechoslovaks and gave the Austrians the right to decide their own future.

Speaking of the tasks to be performed after the war, he said Labour’s declaration forsees great international public works, such as complete transformation of the whole transport system by rail, road and canal in central and southeastern Eurooe. Likewise great works of colonial development would be jointly undertaken by many nations in Africa and elsewhere.

“ It will be in our power,” he said, “ to plan for abundance rather than scarcity, find use and a job for every willing worker and destroy the economic causes of war between nations.” CONFERENCES ARRANGED (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, Feb. 17. (Received Feb. 18, at 6 p.m.) A, conference of 400 delegates met at Newcastle to discuss Labour’s peace aims. Mrs Ayrton Goult, the Labour Party chairwoman, said that similar conferences would be called all over the country, because full peace preparations must be made while the war was being waged. “We do not want to bring the German people to their knees but to their senses,” she said. “ Everybody wants an honourable peace, but such a peace with Hitler is impossible because he cannot be trusted, and until Hitlerism is destroyed an earnestly desired and lasting peace cannot be built.