WAY TO PEACE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1939, Page 7

WAY TO PEACE

AS SEEN BY BRITISH LABOUR RESTORATION OF POLAND & CZECHOSLOVAKIA. HITLER’S WORTHLESS WORDS By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, October 10. Mr Hugh Dalton, one of the leading members of the Labour Party, in a speech said the Labour Party had always been a peace party, but to people who asked that the war might be stopped he replied: “If it is stopped on Herr Hitler’s terms, when would it start again? It would start again as soon as it suited Herr Hitler’s purpose to break his word once more.” No one now believed Herr Hitler’s promises, continued Mr Dalton, who said, ‘We want peaceful deeds not worthless words from hi now.” As the first step to a peace conference, asked Mr Dalton, would He’rr Hitler withdraw his troops and police from Warsaw and Prague and restore freedom to the enslaved Poles and Czechs? SHAMEFUL PROPOSALS SOUTH AFRICAN PAPER DENOUNCES HITLER. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 10. A further expression of the view that no peace should be made on Nazi Germany’s terms comes from the Dominions. The “Cape Times” calls Germany’s proposals shameless, and states that so long as Hitler and Hitlerism remain in power in Germany, peace negotiations are impossible. This newspaper expresses complete confidence that the official Allied reply will stamp the impudent proposals clearly and conclusively for the monstrous insincerities they are. This attitude reflects the general feeling among the English papers in South Africa. WINTER RELIEF j STRIKING ASPECT OF FUEHRER’S SPEECH. NEW YORK, October 10. The Berlin correspondent of the “New York Times” says Herr Hitler’s speech did not elucidate his Reichstag speech but was characterised by a more militant accent and more fiery delivery. . ft striking aspect was his constant reference to “winter war relief.” Up to this time the German people have been permitted to believe that with the conquest of Poland the war was ended. Today’s speech indicates that Herr Hitler is preparing the people for war in the west. A radio report, states that at a Press conference President Roosevelt said that he had not received any proposals for peace or mediation in the war. He said he did not think much of Press reports that Herr Hitler would welcome an armistice proposal.

COMPLETE NEUTRALITY URGED EY AMERICAN LABOUR FEDERATION. (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) WASHINGTON, October 11. The American Federation of Labour convention passed a resolution that the United States should remain completely neutral and warned against “premature offers of mediation.” MEDIATION MOVES PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S ATTITUDE. NEW YORK, October 11. The “New York Times” says President Roosevelt by implication served riotice on the belligerents that any proposals that : he should mediate to end hostilities must come through diplomatic channels. In a message to a national and foreign trade convention , the President said economic nationalism was the most prolific breeder of wars. He recalled the economic maladjustment arising from the last war and the illfated peace settlement.