WAR PERIL REAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 165, 3 October 1927, Page 12

WAR PERIL REAL

PEACE TENDENCY REVERSED Mr. Seymour Cocks, prospective Labour candidate for Broxtowe, Notts (England), lecturing on the -war danger recently, quoted Senator Borah that “Europe was drifting to war,” and •Marshal Foeh, that “war was inevitable.” In all directions the war mind was being created. Capitalists in Britain, to preserve the cracking Industrial system, looked to exploitation of the Eastern peoples. The greatest achievement of the Labour Government internationally was the Geneva Protocol, w r ith its insistence on arbitration instead of war for settlement in international disputes. The Tory Government reversed the tendency to peace, substituting the old war-breeding policies. Anglo-Italian close diplomatic relations, in view of the warlike nature of Icalian foreign policy, is a danger to European peace. War between France and Italy last October was only averted by four h »urs. This fact was suppressed by the Governments concerned, but was indicative of real danger. “1928 Critical” They should appreciate the importance of the statement by Mf. Baldwin to an anti-Communist deputation reported in the “Daily Mail” and uncontradicted: “Be patient; the fight against Communism will reach its crisis in 1928.” This statement is highly significant, having regard to the general policy of the Government, and pointed to 1928 as the critical year of danger of a new world war.. The statement of Mr. Winston Churchill, reported as being made in Italy, that were he Italian he would have been a whole-hearted Fascist and would take Communism by the throat land shake the life out of it, indicated the mind of the Tory Government. The only possible path to avert the danger was the overthrow of the Tory Government and the substitution of a Labour Government pursuing a peace policy. The next election will be of paramount importance, and if the Tory Government again returned, war was inevitable, probably involving the fate )f European civilisation.