PEACE PACT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 May 1939, Page 5

PEACE PACT

COMMENT ON THE BRITISH PROPOSALS MAY REVIVE THE LEAGUE. ISOLATION AND APPEASEMENT SCRAPPED. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. LONDON, May 29. The “Daily Telegraph” says that the new Anglo-Russian proposals go far to bridge the existing gap and that the Soviet Union probably will accept the principle of a tripartite guarantee. The “Daily Herald” pays a tribute to the Labour Opposition’s success in redirecting Britain’s foreign policy, replacing one of no European commitments and inviting Russia “from the steerage to the captain’s table.” The “Herald” adds: “Isolation and appeasement are in the waste-paper pasket. England has turned about in her tracks and will-revive the League of Nations if sne keeps going, while the Conscription Bill has been improved beyond recognition.” A message from Moscow states that authoritative circles expect that the Soviet reply to the proposals of Britain and France will be handed to representatives of the two countries today.

LABOUR VIEWS DEMAND FOR THREE-POWER AGREEMENT. APPROVAL OF GUARANTEES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. t LONDON. May 29. “Moscow is a custodian of peace without whom peace-lovers would be dangerously incomplete,” declared Mr George Dallas, presiding at the Labour Party’s annual conference; which was attended by 890 delegates at Southport today. The Government, he said, would be guilty of an intolerable betrayal if it did not immediately conclude a triple pact based on reciprocal obligations with Russia and France. It was the acid test of the Government’s newfound faith in collective security. There was no time to be lost, for pea<e was hanging in the balance,and the country was on the eve of partial mobilisation. Labour supporters welcomed guarantees also to Poland, Turkey, Greece and Rumania. “‘Appeasement’ is dead and damned,” Mr Dallas continued. “Even the Prime Minister cannot breathe new life into it.” He added that the workers of Britain had no quarrels with peoples elsewhere and they should send an assurance of sympathy and friendship with those oppressed by Fascist dictatorship.