WOMEN'S CONGRESS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 4, 6 January 1937, Page 13

WOMEN'S CONGRESS.

i INTERNATIONAL PEACE. ! I Women from many countries met in Brussels at the Congress of the International Peace Campaign which was held during the first week in September, states an exchange. The call to a world-wide effort for peace, the "International Peace Campaign," sent out by Lord Cecil and other well-known men inspired like him with a love of humanity, roused echoes in the hearts of women everywhere. Women realise that it is not enough to long for peace, to pay lip service to peace, but that if they are to have peace they must toil for it. The congress committees called on all women, manual workers, and intellectuals, housewives, school teachers, mothers of families from the towns and countryside, of all countries, of all classes, of all political opinions, to support the campaign with all the force at their command. Four points which formed the basis of the congress were: — (1) Restoration of the sanctity of treaty obligations; (2) reduction and limitation of armaments by international agreement, and the suppression of profit from the manufacture of arms; (3) strengthening of the League of Nations or the prevention and stopping of war by the more effective organisation of collective security and mutual assistance; (4) establishment within the framework of the League of Nations, of effective machinery for the remedying by peaceful means of international conditions that might lead to war.