New Britain herald., 1918-03-05
GUST DIPLOMATS,
 HENDERSON'S PLEA
English Labor Party Spokesman Believes World Peace Possible
MUST ABOLISH MILITARISM
Considers Failure to Maintain Power Of kcrensky Was Fatal Omission on Part Of Alfies-ConciIiation, His Policy.

London, March 1.-The campaign for the next general election has be- gun. Arthur Henderson, former m ern Der of the war council. finding that the secretaryship of the labor party compels him to spend most of his time in London. has decided to resign his seat in the house of com mons from the Barnard Castle divi- sion of Durham and has been invited to contest the southern division of
 Eastman.
 MT. Henderson addressed a meet, ing last night in Eastman, making a strong appeal for the abolition of secret diplomacy, for peace by con- ciGatiOn and for a league of nations. He said that before the war began the people had entrusted themselves to statesmen and diplomatists and were paying dearly for their neglect Ii had to be recognized that no greater disaster had occurred in the course of the war than the ia tai onlis~ sion to do the utmost to keep Pre- mier Kerensky and his government in power in Russia. The people must
 be on their guard against a repeti- ton of the same fatal policy over g.
 wider field.
 Slaughter Disaster to Mankind. It is highly impro bable, MT. Hen- dersoon declared, that the WAT can be ended by a decisive Prussian miIi- tary triumph. It might end by a pro-
 cess of exhaustion and that meant @ continuance of the war with all it's horror until the destruction of human ] life and material of one or both sets of belligerent make it's continuance impossible. Such a termination would be a disaster of the first magnitude to mankind.
 There remains, he said. a third alternative-a policy of conciliation through the com mbined forced of labor and socialism to secure a real people 8 peace. That did not mean a. sur render to the enemy or a patched-up peace, or peace at any price, nor that
 the people are willing to condone
 German brutality or leave Germany
 with all her power for mischief un- impaired. What the policy of con-
 ciliation meant was the restriction
 of militarisrr not only in Germany
 but everywhere.
 Characterization of World. He then recited the well known aims of the labor party including a.
 league of nations. He said that such a league implied the complete democ- ratization of the machinery of gov- ernment in all countries, the SUD- pression of greed of diplomacy and the publication of treaties which must never contravene the stipulations of the league of nations It meant the concerted abolition of compulsory military service in all countries to be prepared for by a common limitation of armanents and also they must abandon thought against Germany of an economic boycott and of tho financial or commercial isolation of Germany.
 The Germany policy towards Rus
 sia made the possibility of peace by
 conciliation much more remote. The people must convince the German people that victory for such ruth less warfare must fasten permanent ly OF democratic nations the awful burden of armaments and enforced service, and that the greater the German success on the battlefield the moro remote was world peace.