DUTCH PEACE MOVEMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 138, 12 June 1936, Page 13

DUTCH PEACE MOVEMENT.

The people of the Netherlands have Ion" been known for their intelligent a superhuman effort to jmsart. ler neutrality, thereby rendering .aluable service to the combatants in repatriating prisoners from both sides and } for nun" a basis for International Bed f Cross work. As a benevolent neutral Holland saw enough and to spare of the horrors and dcstructiveness of war, now that warfare tends to be waged from the air and frontiers °r boundaries have ceased to confine or repel, Ho lands memory of the last holocaust and position in' the midst of a ring of mutually suspicious and' rapidly arming is disquieting to her essentially peaceloving character. The Dutch pacifist organisations are to a oreat extent religious in spirit and one of the best known is the Radical Pacifist Movement (Stichting Rationale Vredes-Actie). Founded oyer 20 yeare affo, before the war, its influence has gradually spread until its distinctive fadge, depicting two upraised hands breaking a rifle, is well known through out the world. The most staking activity of the Stichting Rationale Vredes-Actie from the point of view world news, is its annual peace demonstration. Last year the monster proces . sion, -which paraded in complete silence, took two and a half hours to pass a given point. This year the demonstration is being made in a spirit of specially earnest dedication to the ideal of wor brotherhood, and emphatically to draw the attention of the world to the necessity to will and plan for peace.