NO PEACE WITH NAZIS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 February 1940, Page 5

NO PEACE WITH NAZIS

MR HERBERT MORRISON’S DECLARATION REGIME TO BE SMASHED. — MERE RESHUFFLING USELESS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February 10. After declaring that in his opinion the Labour Party’s manifesto on war and peace, which was published at the end of last week, would live in history as an objective statement of the causes of the war. the principles involved in it, and the purpose which should animate the peace, Mr Herbert Morrison, leading Labour M.P., speaking at Sheffield, said: “With the people of France we entered the war to smash the Nazi regime, which had become a nuisance to Europe generally as well as a curse to Germany. We cannot compromise with that regime; we cannot make peace with it.” “And let it be understood that any mere reshuffling of Nazi personalities, as, for example, the substitution of Goering for Hitler, will make no difference. .The Nazi rule and the Nazi blackmail must go. Let the German people recognise that fact. Let them recognise also that, in so far as they are parties to continuing the Nazis in power, they will be sharing the responsibility with the Nazis for the continuance of the war.

“With no less emphasis, however, I wish to add this, that if the German people destroy the Nazi Government and substitute an enlightened democratic regime anxious to co-operate with other nations in the building of a free and tidy Europe, then the purpose of the war will have been served, and there will be no need for its continuance.

“Just as we must continue this struggle for the destruction of the tyrannical and abominable regime, until that end is attained so we must be ready and, indeed, anxious for a peace with the German nation when that nation has achieved the prerequisitesof a fundamental change in German policy and has withdrawn its forces from territories which Germany has no right to occupy. “Finally, British Labour appeals for an order in which justice and economic fair play will obtain, from which war will have been banished, and which will provide the necessary means for the preservation, of peace between nations.”