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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 4, 1940
MIRROR OF WORLD
OPINION
LABOUR AND THE WAR
sistent, they must not only condone The Labour party, supporting the but applaud every wrong thing, done war, finds itself defending its-ideals by the British Empire in India, Ire- on two fronts. It has to defend its wood does right to take no tone of land, and South Africa, Mr. Green- ideals as a party of reform against, a
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THE VICEROY AND
solid body of Conservative opinion apology in stating the grounds of his while co-operating with that body in party's foreign policy; that policy is the national struggle. It has to defend based on the fundamental principles its ideals as a party with a European of its history.-"Manchester Guar- outlook and a large view of foreign dian." policy against critics who share its interest in domestic reform but re- ject that outlook and that large view. On the one side there is an outcry among Right-wing Conservatives when Mr. Attlee speaks in favour. of some kind of international control of colonies; on the other pacifists of one
MR. GANDHI
The failure of Monday's conversation between the Viceroy of India and Mr. Gandhi to produce results is surpris- ing as well as disappointing. It was well prepared for by Mr. Gandhi's school or another seek to use all the
approval of the discontent caused by war conditions openly expressed to undermine the resolution that sus- speech made by the Viceroy at. Bom- tains the war. All war thus creates bay last month, when Lord Linlithgow difficulties for progressive parties. In emphasised the British Government's 'desire to see India attain Dominion this case the position of the Labour party has been made more difficult status at the earliest moment possible. In the course of Monday's talk the by the complete turn-round of the
Viceroy outlined what is on the face Communists. Twelve months ago the Communists agreed with the Labour of it a reasonable and practical pro- party in calling for a stand against gramme, pointing out that the best- Hitlerism. To-day the Labour party stepping-stone to Dominion status was in upholding that view
the adoption of the federal scheme at.
exposed
incessant present in cold storage, modified by the various parties criticism not only of those agreement with
to
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who sincerely think peace more im- concerned, and repeating the invita- portant than freedom but also of those tion to representatives of different In- who, under Stalin's influence, have dian parties to accept seats forthwith Council. the Governor-General's on abandoned their former ideas and taken to power politics in their worst Mr. Gandhi, who had said at the out- form, making Imperialism, not Bri- set of the talk that he was in a posi- tion to voice no one's views but his tish but Russian, their creed.
The little book that Mr. Greenwood own, said at the end that the Viceroy's has written, "Why We Fight," dis- proposals did not in his view meet the ull demand of the Congress Party cussing Labour politics in both these aspects, serves a purpose of import and he desired to defer further dis- ance not only to the Labour party but cussion "with the object of a solution to the nation. So also does the official of the difficulties which had arisen." declaration of Labour party policy on What this means is not clear. If the "full demand" of the Congress Party, The War and the Peace" which is
Moslems nor the issued this morning. For a vigorous which neither the
accepted and effective Labour party is essential Princes approve, was, to be to the strength and the health of the as it stood there would have been no nation both during and after the war, need for discussion at all. There must obviously be compromise, and possibly The principles for which it stands are
Mr. Gandhi is hoping to engineer that. vital. Mr. Greenwood puts the case for those principles very well.
But it rather looks as though the stick- He shows that the determination to resist ing-point was a Congress demand that Hitler is an integral part of the faith the future of India shall be settled by and will that made the working classes a Constituent Assembly of Indians over struggle, and struggle with great the heads of the British Government.
that en- "The Spectator." success, against conditions slaved them at home. He has a happy description of the trawler crews that sweep up mines, showing that they
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BY ELECTIONS.
Only 24 per cent. of the electorate
do this not merely because they are recorded their votes at the Southwark bred to the sea and its delights and by-election. The "Daily Herald," how- dangers but because they would sail ever, may well be right in estimating the seven seas seventy times rather that this was really a 40 per cent, poll, than knuckle down
In
to a system that would make them galley slaves. urging the prosecu- tion of the war the Labour party has against it the paci- Ast tradition that everybody respects as well as the less respectable dislike of the hardships of war and the new Communist logic. On the other hand,
THIS ENGLAND !
of first- The discontinuance class on the Underground is only "one of several jolts to the social code which the war is giving us. Not that it matters: we can all af.. ford to be a little more, demo-". cratic for a few months, just as we change our clocks every year in the same cause.-"Observator!! in the Observer.
since thousands of voters had been evacuated or were on some form of
service and
pre- vented from vot-
ing. As it was, the Labour candidate came in comfor- tably, with Mr. Searson on a Stop the War appeal ob- taining 1,500 votes, and Mrs. Van der Elst securing near- ly as many on her
the dislike of injustice and oppression curiously personal candidature. Pre- is deeper in the working classes than sumably the majority of the voters in any other part of the community, thought the issue unreal; they would and it is a great source of strength to all like to stop the war if they could, the party. If we look back over the but are not prepared to stop it on terms. Silvertown, where nineteenth century we can see how Hitler's
is a by-election because Jack true this is. Take the contrast between there the crusade of Bright and Cobden Jones has retired from politics, pro- against the Crimean War and Glad mises a liveller fight. Alderman Hol- stone's crusade against Disraeli's im- lins, the Labour candidate, will be perialism in the seventies. In the first opposed by Mr. Harry Pollitt for the case there was little popular response; Communists, and also apparently by In the second a popular response that o Fascist candidate. In that case there returned Gladstone to power in 1880. will be two Stop the War candidates. Why was this difference? Because, the Mr. Pollitt is the most forcible spokes- Russian Tsar, against whom the man of Communism in this country. Crimean War was fought, was the No one has so eloquently and bitterly man who had cruelly ill-treated Poles denounced those who were prepared to and Hungarians. The working man make any kind of deal with Hitler be saw him through the eyes of Kossuth. fore Stalin came to terms with the In the second case Disraeli was sus- Nazis. Those who share Mr. Pollitt's taining an oppressive power for rea- doubts about the objects and possible sons of empire. All this hatred of results of the war, hope that he will opportunity of this election to oppression is on the side of the La- use the o bour party. The Communists find tell us in plain language on what themselves adopting the arguments terms he now advocates, peace with": of power politics by which, if con- Hitler-New Statesman and Nation."
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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 4, 1940