Nation. May Be Compelled to Resort to Force in Support of the League to Defend Peace London, June 29. MHE attitude of uncompromising opposition to war in all circumstances was abandoned at a conference to-day between leaders of the Trade Union Congress and the Labour Party, which reviewed the resoBition passed by the Labour Party Conference last year calling for a general strike in the event of war.
The conference drew up a statement declaring that it was necessary to distinguish between a war of aggression and one undertaken in defence of peace.
It says that Labour is emphatically opposed to any aggressive war, but circumstances might occur in which Britain will be compelled to resort to force in support of the League of Nations te restrain an aggressor nation.
The statement will be submitted to the forthcoming conference of the Trade Union Congress and the Labour Party.
Labour papers welcome the declaration as strengthening collective guarantees of peace.
—Reuter.
London, June 28.
Three new British destroyers were Taunehed to-day, one at Cowes and two at Barrow—Reuter. intends to continue its resistance to the Japanese demands in China—United Press.
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