PEACE CONGRESS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 279, 7 September 1936, Page 5

PEACE CONGRESS.

THE CLOSING FESTIVAL. MESSAGES SENT BY BALLOONS. (United Press Association —Copyright.! (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) BRUSSELS, Sept. 6. La Passipnaria and two Spanish politicians attended the Peace Congress. closing festival at the Heysel Stadium, where 15,000 people were present, and released thousands of balloons carrying peace messages to adjacent countries.

THE FINAL RESOLUTIONS. YOUTH IN WORLD AIR FORCES. BRUSSELS, September 5. The International Peace Congress passed resolutions in favour of disarmament by agreement, the suppression of military air forces, internationalising civil aviation, constituting an international force under the League of Nations, insisting on a pact the signatories to which would help all victims of aggression, organising an international plebiscite on the basis of the peace congress, and creating parliamentary groups in each country as adherents to the congress programme.

Mr Noel Baker, on behalf of the general committee, outlined the constitution of a central international office with a team of world touring experts and speakers; also a bureau to combat false news. He added that consideration was being given to an international peace campaign and the constitution of an annual world-wide peace day.

Enthusiasm greeted a Jew auid an Arab who, saluting before the microphone, together advocated peace in Palestine and mutual reconstruction of the country.

Mr C. 'W. A, Scott, the airman, was loudly applauded when he affirmed that the best and bravest youths in the world were attracted to the air forces. He hoped they would not be called on to wreak terrible havoc on civilians in wav. He and bis fellow-pilots would rather fly peacefully than as agents of destruction.

The loudest applause greeted a Spaniard whom the chairman promptly rebuked for raising liis fist in a political salute. The congress concluded with a resolution stating that peace was endangered, calling all peoples to be militant in its defence.

Italy and Germany were not represented.