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Show BRITISH LABOR TO STAND BY ALLIES Demand for Rehabilitation of Belgium Included in Statement of Leaders. LONDON, Dec. 17. The 1 tally Telegraph Tele-graph prints a long statement on war 1 aims and peace policies formulated by the parliamentary committee of the trades union congress and executives of the Labor La-bor partv, which is lo be submitted for indorsement by all sections of the British labor movement at a conference at Westminster West-minster on December 2S. The statement follows mainly the terms of a similar pro-nunciamento pro-nunciamento published and cabled abroad some mouths aco, ! It declares that ih continuing the war j labor is actuated by a determination to make tlie world safe for democracy here- after. No sympat hy is expressed with , attempts to convert the war into one ot j conquest, but tlie statement insists that , restitution and reparation and also cer- ! tain territorial readjustments are neces- ; sary if the renewal of armaments and war is to be avoided. The statement puts at the forefront a demand for the restoration and rehabilitation rehabilita-tion of Belgium at the expense of Germany Ger-many It deals wit h Alsace-Lorraine. Italy, the Balkans. Poland. Turkey and German African colonies, on lines similar simi-lar to those suggested in earlier documents. |