1941-06-07 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 7, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

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WINDSOR HOUSE

LABOUR LOOKS HEAD

The British Labour Party's Conference held in London during the week in deflance of pos¬ sible German bombs. opened with an almost unanimous vote in favour of an "all-out" fight until victory. The tone of the

Conference throughout was a direct challenge to Hitler and all he repre-| sents. While denounc- ing war as an instrument of national policy, a de- claration was submitted by the Party Executive which stated: "we reaf- firm our determination to fight until Nazism and Fascism are overthrown. We shall insist upon mak- ing a peace which will re- store freedom and inde- pendence to conquered peoples. We shall demand an organisation of such international institutions' and controls as will put it finally beyond the power of the Government of any country thereafter to em- bark upon aggression.”

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This memorandum, which was passed by a card vote of over two mil lion as against 30,000, was not a pious utterance or an expression of wishful thinking; nor was it put diminished." out as a theoretical basis

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Germany, should

I want to tell you why I think, not that it is terribly important to the

win this the need of the hour. The British war. I am not concerned here Empire 13 not the Kingdom of whole world including the Ger- with the events that led up to Heaven. The East End of Lon- mans that Great Britain, and the war. Let the dead past bury don is not my idea of paradise, its dead. The future is what and there are episodes in our his- matters, and what will come out tory, for which we cannot take of the war. When the fighting any credit. But even if the worst is finished, and the smoke has that is said by our critics were

But it was not only to cleared, we shall find ourselves true, it would not be the whole for discussion. It was the re-state their determina- and unfamiliar.

looking at a world that is changed | truth, nor the part of the truth Vast changes are that really matters to the world. result of a reasonable and tion to win the war that taking place of which we cannot There is more to be said.

We determined resolve and the Labour

yet see the shapes; but we all treated Ireland badly for a long Conference know, in our bones, that the world time, but at last we set her free was the more emphatic as was held. Indeed a great

can never be the same again. to our own disadvantage. We did of

Whoever wins, however it was the expression

and it with a bad grace, perhaps, but part of its interest lay in whenever the end comes, the we did it. India has grievances: opinion of a section of the post-war reconstruction, people of the world will face a yet India, in my opinion, is community which has Mr.

There moving fast towards self-govern- Arthur Greenwood, will have to be a remaking of ment within the Empire, and will perhaps suffered

more who has been delegated by the economic and the political in- become, in the not distant future, heavily than most during the Government to draw the present war, and up plans towards this end, which has certainly some when addressing the Con- bitter memories of pre-ference, was able to say war days. The Labour that Britain was the only

task of reconstruction,

stitutions of human life. In a free member of the Common-

By John

Party has unmistakably country engaged in the Macmurray

of unification

have to happen, form of world unity. This will

Party.

wealth of Nations. Does anyone doubt this? Not even those old- style imperialists who would like to prevent it. And why? Because there is an inner pressure in the structure of British history that drives us, often in spite of our- selves, away from the slavery of the old empires towards the free- dom of a commonwealth of peo- ples.

grown up. It employs no war which had improved longer the threats of a its social services. It is weakling. Its delegates to interesting to note that particular there must be, in my the Conference wasted no the Government's aims opinion, some sort

Britain's Task of Europe, as the prelude and time in recrimination of are professedly similar to preparation for on effective If Great Britain wins, the past Governments nor did those of the Labour Party

war, she will fall heir to whoever wing, the German effort to unify Europe. they breathe revenge on Labour is determined that But if Germany wins, it will be in my opinion she will be oblig Germany. On the

con the war shall be won. But done in a very different way if will be undertaken in a

done in one way; while it will beed to undertake the task. But if trary they stated their it is regarded as the pre-victory falls to the British Em-different spirit, a

very spirit which aims bluntly and straight-liminary step to a greater pire.

will be directed by a very differ- This difference will not dependent forwardly.

historic

The experience. goal, and no time is to be upon temporary and Immediate British principle of unification The heads of the four lost in preparing for the conditions, Germany's way would will lie beyond nationalism, totalitarian countries future. For this reason fellow that Hitler is, nor upon the not depend upon the kind of mad

Within our boundaries there øre doubtless listened, for in the Conference urged ideas or the passions of the Nazi people of the most varied tradi- these representatives of national planning now in the past history of Germany and of social development.

But it would depend on tions and culture, at every level This in British labour lie the key order to facilitate the the shape that history has imposed itself compels British statesman- to Britain's strength, and transition from war to the British way would not depend think inclusively and not exclus upon Getman experience. And ship, in sheer self-interest, to.. here is to be found the peace, It deplored the upon what government was in sively; and to plan in terms of yardarm by which to mea-"intolerable" mass of un-power, or upon what men had the the world and its peace. It for

making of peace in their hands bids us to contemplate a unifica- sure their own resources, employment; demanded or the framing of policy. It would tion of Europe which is incom- not only in production, the removal of distressed be the result of centuries of ex-patible with the interests of the

perience; it would be the outcome world as a whole. but in what powers of en-areas and declared that in of generations of social practice This, then, is my reason for durance their own people peace time as well as in of Great Britain and of the portant for all the peoples, in- which has determined the shape thinking that it is desperately im- may possess, Mr. John war time, finance must be British Empire. The difference cluding the unfortunate Germain Winant, United States made the servant and not between the British and the Ger- people, that the British Empire man way of achieving the unity of and not the German Reich should Ambassador to London, the master of political Europe would grow out of the win this war. The New Order stated the position as re- policies. These are wide difference between the British Em-the Germans would set up would gards Britain very clearly subjects, revolutionary in difference lies in this; that Great A British New Order would grow when he told President character, the war unity of nations, and as a conse many would seek control through

pire and the German Reich. ~ The | continue the German experience.

Britain is not, a": "nation but a out of British experience. Ger-

Roosevelt that despite destructed horriblequence, the British Empire is not domination and suppression; -Briz

Commonwealth of Natione

law: The German Europe

heavily increasing odds, though it be, is awaken really an empire, but a growing tain would seek redond severe reverses and dim-ing people as nothing in Now the last ling that I want be an Imperial Dominio inishing “food convoys: the past has succeeded in to do at this moment is to sing ed through mil

The praises of the British pire against the rest of British determination to doing. The world will be in my opmlow our

B18 British Euro see the thing through had a happler place as a re

the monwealth. hardened instead of sult.

serve democratle world:

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