WORLD ISSUES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 September 1938, Page 6

WORLD ISSUES

EXPRESSION OF LABOUR VIEWS IN BRITAIN ADDRESS AT TRADES UNION CONGRESS DEMAND THAT GERMANY BE RESISTED (Recd This Day, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, September 5. Opening the Trades Union Congress at Blackpool, Mr H. Elvin, iii his presidential address, declared that three great issues—those of democracy or fascism, peace or war, socialism of capitalism —were linked. If the powers, including Britain, had not betrayed their trust when Germany marched into .the Rhineland, the world would have been saved for democracy. He denounced the Japanese aggression and air massacres in China, and also condemned the rape of Austria. He added: "Is Czechoslovakia to be the next? If not, why have not Britain, France and Russia plainly told Germany she must keep off the grass.” Mr Elvin added: “This brave democracy must not be thrown to the wolves, and no pressure must be brought to bear on the Czechs to make them succumb to Germany’s ruthlessness. This may be Europe’s last chance to prevent another world war. Germany owing to her outrageous expulsion of Jews, ought to be outlawed until she realised that barbarism does not pay. Before Germany presses claims on behalf of minorities elsewhere, she should put her own house in order.”