Two Notable Broadcasts
Those who listened to the broadcasts last Sunday and Monday, the one by the Prime Minister, the other by Mr. Herbert Morrison, must have been struck by the fact that there was not a word spoken to show the least difference between Government and Labour opinion about war and peace aims. The two speeches complemented each other ad- mirably. Nothing could have been better than Mr. Morri- son's brief but pungent suggestion of what Britain would be like under Nazi rule. Both speakers insisted that there could be no coming to terms with a Nazi Germany dominated by aggressive Hitlerism ; that the first aim is to win the war, and that we should con- sider the war won, with or without further bloodshed, it the German people proved their readiness to abandon the methods of the present regime. Both speakers, again, agree on the general principles to be pursued —that the ideal of mutual help must be substituted for domination ; that each country must be free to determine its own internal form of Government ; that the nations must come together to promote a free and constant flow of trade ; and that armaments must gradually be dropped. Neither of them attempted at this stage to define with exactitude the machinery through which these ideals should be put into practice. It is no insignificant sign of the real unity of the nation that the Government and the Opposition should spontaneously express Britain's war aims and peace aims in almost identical terms.
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