WAR THE CHILD OF FEAR
RAMASY MACDONALD STATES LABOUR’S POLICY
PEACE AND CO-OPERATION
(Australian and N.Z. Press Association) LONDON, Monday.
The Leader of the Labour Party, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, in an article in the “Morning Post,” defines the foreign policy of the Labour Party as one of peace and co-operation. Not merely will it avoid war, he says, but it will put thoughts of, and preparations for, war out of the mind of the nations. - Fear and suspicion in the hearts of the people keep them armed, not against any enemy in sight, but against the shadow of a possible enemy. The nations are afraid to walk in the unfamiliar ways of peace. Mr. MacDonald says a dictum which ought to orientate Britain’s foreign policy is that established peace is the best security, and this antiquates all military policies.
But the Foreign Secretary must remember that no country can move far beyond others. The Foreign Secretary cannot isolate his country, but he can keep the world moving rapidly. The time is overdue, says the Labour leader, for evacuating the Rhineland and for settling all reparation payments; also for accepting Russia as a fact.
Britain’s relations with the United States should be put on a satisfactory footing, not by unofficial talks, but officially and formally.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 586, 12 February 1929, Page 9
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