WAR & PEACE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 June 1941, Page 6

WAR & PEACE

AIMS OF BRITISH LABOUR TOTAL VICTORY NECESSARY. IMPORTANCE OF AMERICAN CO-OPERATION. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 9.55 a.m.) RUGBY. June 4. Mr A. Greenwood, speaking at the Labour Party conference, said Britain was the only country in the world, facing the burden of stress of war. which during the past year had improved her social services. He confidently believed that the growing cooperation between Britain and America would become closer as the war went on and would continue after the war. “I think,” he declared, “they will tread the same path as us, realising that there are no longer two hemispheres, but one single small world. Economic co-operation between America. Britain and the Dominions will give Britain sufficient economic resources soon to obliterate all the losses and scars of the war." Reconstruction, he added, was going to be a problem that would call for enthusiastic and intensive effort by people of all kinds and in all quarters and the Labour movement had got an important part to play in shaping the future. Mr H. Dalton, moving the adoption of the executive’s declaration on peace aims, asked that the conference should declare that total victory was necessary to a just peace. The voting was 2,413.000 for adoption and 30,000 against. The conference began a discussion on a memorandum outlining Labour's peace aims, in which it was stated that a more complete and national planning now for production and distribution that would be more equitable would be the ultimate transition towards peace. Mr Dalton said there would be no repetition after the war of the great fortunes which had emerged from the last war. Mr Greenwood, expressing his belief in growing Anglo-American cooperation. said: “I know there will be a shambles before the war is over, but our co-operation and that of the Dominions, with the United States, will give us economic resources, soon obliterating all the losses from the war.” NEW PARTY CHAIRMAN (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) LONDON, June 4. Mr W. H. .Green, M.P., was elected chairman of the Labour Party.