Assertion: labour party | /r/CapableOf | abandon its earlier pacifist stance
Facets:
value: gradually
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: As the threat from Nazi Germany increased in the 1930s the Labour Party gradually abandoned its earlier pacifist stance and supported re-armament, largely due to the efforts of Ernest Bevin and Hugh Dalton who by 1937 had also persuaded the party to oppose Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement.