Mr. Henderson went on to criticize the Allied diplomacy for
having allowed Russia to collapse, when Labour delegates at Stockholm might perhaps have talked her into sanity. He suggested -that- the Allies should have tried to detach Austria and Turkey from Germany by fair words. " Did we prefer to take Jerusalem._by force ? " Labour wanted the Allies to make it clear that the struggle was continuing only for principles and ideals and not for conquest. " Labour asks for the opportunity of ascertaining how far Germany is prepared to accept Labour's peace proposals." However, Mr. Henderson also said that " Labour insists on Germany recognizing that with regard to Belgium, Serbia, Rumania, and the whole of the Allies there is an irreducible minimum which she must be pre- pared to accept." That is to say, Labour is entirely sound on the war, for Germany will never accept those terms until she is beaten in the field.
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